PERSONAL NOTES FOR PETER SENGE’S FIVE DISCIPLINES Personal mastery is the discipline of continually clarifying and deepening our personal vision‚ of focusing our energies‚ of developing patience‚ and of seeing reality objectively’ (ibid.: 7). It goes beyond competence and skills‚ although it involves them. It goes beyond spiritual opening‚ although it involves spiritual growth (ibid.: 141). Mastery is seen as a special kind of proficiency. It is not about dominance‚ but rather about calling. Vision
Premium Organizational learning Psychology
1.0 Introduction Peter Senge was born in 1947‚ and he graduated in an engineering Stanford and then undertake a Master in Social Systems modelling at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and after that he completed his PhD on Management (Mark‚2001). According to Peter Senge ‚ learning organizations are “ Organizations where people continuously expand their capacity to create the results they really want ‚ where expanded and new patterns of thinking are developed‚ where collective goal is
Premium Management Strategic management Organizational learning
Peter Senge: Video Interviews Speaking specifically about management in his video interviews Senge believes that we don’t understand how we depend on other people all over the world‚ that we don’t "understand the nature of interdependance" (1). He also states that we don ’t understand the extent to which our choices influence other people. E.g. charging a phone can cause diminishing of fossil fuels/climate change. Our decisions although they may have a positive effect in the immediate short
Premium Term Management
ending because of a decline in opportunities for further expansion. It is ending because individuals‚ organizations‚ and governments are realizing that its side effects are unsustainable. But endings are also beginnings. In The Necessary Peter Senge Revolution‚ Peter Senge and his coauthors share the guiding ideas that are essential for creating a more sustainable future: seeing systems‚ collaborating across boundaries‚ and moving from problem solving to creating. The book is full of stories and examples
Premium Carbon dioxide Global warming Greenhouse gas
Peter Michael Senge (born 1947) is an American systems scientist who is a senior lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management‚ co-faculty at the New England Complex Systems Institute‚ and the founder of the Society for Organizational Learning. He is known as author of the book The Fifth Discipline: The art and practice of the learning organization from 1990 (new edition 2006). Peter Senge was born in Stanford‚ California. He received a B.S. in Aerospace engineeringfrom Stanford University. While
Premium Problem solving Six Thinking Hats Critical thinking
Five Disciplines of Organizational Learning Introduction Peter Senge described learning organizations as places where “people continually expand their capacity to create the results they truly desire‚ where new and expansive pattern thinking are nurtured‚ where collective aspiration is set free‚ and where people are continually learning to learn together. Each of these disciplines involves a body of theory and techniques that must be practiced in order for mastery to develop” (Senge 1990).
Premium Organizational learning
is one of the five business disciplines that we have talked about in business 101 and I think that is the major that I am going to pursue. “Accounting is the measurement‚ statement‚ or provision of assurance about financial information primarily used by lenders‚ managers‚ investors‚ tax authorities and other decision makers to make resource allocation decisions between and within companies‚ organizations‚ and public agencies” (Wikipedia). Accounting is a key business discipline underpinning decision
Premium Management
Five Sins Of Management Discipline 1 Summary The article is a quick guide to the five most common errors managers and supervisors make when employee discipline is instituted. A dreaded process they all must face at some time‚ more often than not‚ the process is carried out in an ineffective way. This article identifies those errors and helps formulate an approach to discipline based on sound principles. Error #1: Discipline As Punishment Some managers believe that discipline should be a punishment
Premium Error Management Discipline
Peter Drucker‚ in his article of HBS discusses the sources and types of innovation and analyzes through examples where different types of innovations stand. Firstly he asks the question whether innovation is hard work or as believed by many inspiration. He argues that innovation is mostly the resuly of hard‚ disciplined work as opposed to inspiration. Then he goes on to discuss the profile of innovative organizations and their managers. He thinks that establishing roles and processes‚ setting goals
Premium Entrepreneurship Innovation Diffusion of innovations
3.0 PORTER’S FIVE FORCES ANALYSIS 3.1 Rivalry among existing competitors: Padini is currently facing the highest level of rivalry from its competitor due to a large number of competitors operating in the same industry as the company. Nowadays‚ more of the company has expanded its scale in order to rivalry fit. Many companies now are more advanced in terms of scale‚ they will have to compete for the similar products and services such as brand image‚ customers’ loyalty‚ and other factor. This would
Premium Porter five forces analysis Competition Perfect competition