Peter Senge

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Peter Senges Learning OrganizationsBy Michelle
Meyer Ngai Katherine Davis
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• PhD graduate from MIT in Systems Management
• Founding chair of SoL (Society for Organizational
  Learning)
• 1990 wrote The Fifth Discipline

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Systems Thinking

• interdependency and change
• focus on whole not individual parts
• long-term goals vs. short-term benefits
• better appreciation of systems leads to more
  appropriate action

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Personal Mastery

• organizations learn only through individuals who
  learn
• never arrive in continual learning mode
• strive to clarify and deepen personal vision
• deeply aware of growth areas and tension between
  vision and reality

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Mental Models

• deeply ingrained assumptions and generalizations
• honest and critical scrutiny of entrenched mental
  models
• transcend mental models in order for change to
  take place

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Shared Vision

• A genuine vision leads to people wanting to excel
  and learn
• Leaders must translate personal visions into
  shared visions
• Unearthing shared pictures of the future that
  foster genuine commitment rather than compliance
• Leaders learn the counter-productiveness of
  trying to dictate a vision, no matter how
  heartfelt.
• (Senge 1990 9)

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Team Learning

• Team learning starts with dialogue the
  capacity of members of a team to suspend
  assumptions and enter genuine thinking together
• Allows the group to discover insights not
  attainable individually
• Shows group how to recognize the patterns of
  interaction that undermine learning
• (Senge 1990 10)

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A Learning Organization Is...

• Where people continually expand their capacity to
  create the results they truly desire
• Where new patterns of thinking are nurtured
• Where collective aspiration is set free
• Where people are continually learning to see the
  whole together
• When you ask people about what it is like being
  part of a great team, what is most striking is
  the meaningfulness of the experience. People talk
  about being part of something larger than
  themselves, of being connected, of being
  generative.
• (Senge 1990 13)

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Senge Video Clip

• Senge Interview Clip