Learning Organization: The Concise Tutorial for the Fifth Discipline

Author: Chen Dezhong
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Publish Date: 2005-06-01
Features: "The Fifth Discipline—The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization" is a seminal work written by Peter Senge, a Ph.D. from the Sloan School of Management at MIT, and his colleagues. It was crafted over a decade through extensive research on thousands of enterprises, guiding companies with the findings, accumulating successful case studies from businesses, and integrating the essence of Eastern and Western cultures into its pages. The book generated significant impact in the West upon its publication, and Peter Senge was hailed as a management master of the 1990s. The "Tutorial" attempts to establish and implement the scientific development concept advocated by the central authorities, guided by Marxist philosophy, and combines ancient Chinese Taoist culture, Confucian thought, and Sun Tzu's Art of War. It explores the origins, spread, meaning, core content, historical context, domestic and international development status, as well as related knowledge and terminology of learning organizations. The book focuses on explaining the main concepts, reasons, and methods of each discipline. It also includes three short stories in each discipline, allowing readers to grasp profound theoretical knowledge through engaging games, achieving the effect of learning by analogy.