Peter Senge:Learning organization

& 5 Disciplines
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America
n
scientist

Peter Michael Senge

Founding
chairman of
the Society
for
Organization
al Learning
(SoL).
Born: 1947 in Stanford, California

Teacher
Director of the
Center for
Organizational
Learning at the
MIT Sloan
School of
Management

Education Background:-Bachelors degree in Aerospace Engineering in

Stanford University
-Masters degree in Social Systems Modelling from
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Sloan
School of Management in year
1973
-Doctorate in Management in 1978

Work as an engineer in training for John H. Hopkins

Practical experience in organizations (Ford, Chrysler, Shell, AT&T,
Hanover Insurance and Harley-Davidson) in the 1970s and 1980s
Work in Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
In 1990, he published The Fifth Discipline
Position as engineer

leading figure in

organizational development
Organizational Learning
In 1994, he published The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook

Achievement

199
9

Top 24
greatest
influence on
business
strategy
The
Journal of
Business
Strategy

200
0

Worlds Top
management
gurus.

200
1

The Financial
Times

Business
Week

Top ten
Manageme
nt Gurus

200
8

Top 20 most
influential
business
thinkers

Wall
Street
Journal

Senge management theories

Promote a learning environment for both leaders and
subordinates
Decentralizing in the role of leadership
Be creative and self-sustaining for excel in todays
climate

Learning Organization
Is an organization where people continually expand their
capacity to create the results they truly desire
Learning organizations require and encourage the
development of leadership competencies at all levels in
the organizational hierarchy

The Roles of the leader

Organization Learning Disabilities

1. I am my position.
2. The enemy is out there.
3. The illusion of taking charge.
4. The fixation on events.
5. The delusion of learning from experience.
6. The myth of the management team.
7. The parable of the boiled frog.

Contribution to Management Thinking

----------------------------------The Five Disciplines

The
discipline
of personal
growth and
learning.

Creative
Tension

Two ways to
resolve this
tension:
1. by accepting
reality and
bringing your
vision down to it
2. by using your
vision to try to
transform
reality to match
your vision

Mental Models
a deep assumption, generalizations,
subconscious or even pictures and
images
that
influences
how
we
understand the world and how we take
action
improve individual awareness, influence
what a person see and how a person act
include cultures, values, experiences,
norms and others

Team Learning
starts with dialogue, it is a process of
aligning and developing the capacity of
a team to meet their truly desire result
intelligence of team exceeds the
intelligence of the individuals on the
team

2 elements to make
team learning more
effective

Dialogue
= deep listening and the
free exploration of ideas

Discussion
= examine the best ideas
to support decisions when
all ideas have been stated

Shared
vision
Share pictures of the future
It offers the focus and energy for
learning
Increased clarity, enthusiasm and
commitment

System
thinking
Conceptual backbone of the
fifth discipline
Interrelationship of the
different part of the
organization
Determine cause and effect

he Laws of the Five Discipline

1.Todays problems come from yesterdays solutions.
2.The harder you push, the harder the system pushes back.
3.Behavior grows better before it grows worse.
4.The easy way out usually leads back in.
5.The cure can be worse than the disease.
6.Faster is slower.
7.Cause and effect are not closely related in time and space.
8.Small changes can produce big results, but the areas of highest
leverage are often the least obvious.
9.You can have your cake and eat it too, but not at once.
10.
Dividing an elephant in half does not produce two small elephants.
11.
There is no blame.

Article 1

of Peter Senges Learning

Organization
by Bradley G. Jackson (2000)

Article 2

Stairway to heaven: The gender

subtext of Senges learning theory
Stephan Raaijmakers, Inge Bleijenbergh, Brigit Fokkinga & Max
Visser (2014)

Article 3

System Thinking and Organizational

Learning: Acting Locally and Thinking
Globally in the Organization of the
Future
Peter M. Senge & John D. Sterman (1990)

Article 4

The Leaders New Work:

Building Learning Organizations
Peter M. Senge (1990)

Article 5

Systems Thinking Competencies

and the Learning Organization
Keith T. Linard & Beate Aretz (2000)

Article 6

A Comparative Analysis
of Three Unique Theories
Carol C. Leavitt (2011)

Conclusion
Five
disciplin
es

Organizatio
nal learning

Mastery of Senge's five disciplines managers overcome

obstacles to growth and creates brave new futures