Peter M. Senge

The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization

The Fifth Discipline

Nast

The book opens up a fundamental challenge: what makes an organization a healthy and evolving organism?

The extensive experience of the author coaching and training corporations transpire in the book and there are many interesting examples.

It is not a book with methods or practices ready to implement. But it is inspiring and it talks at large about some of the fundamental challenges most teams and organizations face.

Peter Senge

The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization

Hatem Abdelmowgoud 

This book is complex, at least for me. It took me a while to finish it. I had to reread certain parts several times to be able to grasp the complicated ideas laid out by the author.

I like to think of this book as more of a philosophy than a management book. It’s a management philosophy book. Early chapters of the book explores the psychology of people in senior management of organizations, focusing on the reasons behind their behavior. Spanning through different psychological aspects from narcissism to lack of communication, these chapters gives a clear picture about why people act the way they act inside an organization. This part brilliantly lay out a solid foundation for the following chapters.

The rest of the book discusses different complex systems of organisations, the common practice with solving complex problems, and the reasons behind each problem.

The Fifth Discipline The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization