Peter Senge

Books

• The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization
  Originally published in 1990. Examines organizational learning disabilities and how long-held processes eventually lead to the death of an organization. Describes how organizations that learn from the top down cannot survive.

• The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies and Tools for Building a Learning Organization
  and Art Kleiner. Shows how to create an organization of learners where memories are brought to life, where collaboration is the lifeblood of every endeavor, and where the tough questions are fearlessly asked.

• The Dance of Change:
  

• An Unused Intelligence: Physical Thinking for 21st Century Leadership
  

• Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership
  

• Schools That Learn: A Fifth Discipline Fieldbook for Educators, Parents, and Everyone Who Cares About Education
  and Janis Dutton, Bryan Smith.

• Presence: Human Purpose and the Field of the Future
  The book explores the "development of a new theory about change and learning. In wide-ranging conversations held over a year and a half, Senge, Scharmer, Jaworski, and Flowers explore their own experiences and those of one hundred and fifty scientist

Articles

• Mental Models: Putting Strategic Ideas into Practice   view details
  The article expores "the process of adoption fail[ing] because the new ideas are at such variance with mental models currently accepted by the organization"

• The Practice of Innovation   view details
  "We are all addicted to maintaining control, to avoiding failure, to doing things the way we always have. We can't help it. And we need one another to break the habit."

• The Leadership of Profound Change   view details
  "When people confuse top-driven change and profound change, it?s easy to hold an exaggerated view of the power of top management, a confusion that no doubt persists among some top managers as well."

• Systems Citizenship: The Leadership Mandate for This Millennium   view details
  "For me the fundamentals start with a set of deep capacities which few in leadership positions today could claim to have developed: systems intelligence, building partnership across boundaries, and openness of mind, heart, and will. To develop such capaci

• Awakening Faith in an Alternative Future   view details
  C. Otto Scharmer, Joseph Jaworski, and Betty Sue Flowers. "In the end, we concluded that understanding presence and the possibilities of larger fields for change can come only from many perspectives  from the emerging science of living systems, from the

Author Quotes

• Real commitment is rare ... 90% of the time what passes for commitment is compliance.

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• It is a testament to our naïveté about culture that we think that we can change it by simply declaring new values. Such declarations usually produce only cynicism.

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  The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook