Learning Organization.
Where people continually expand their capacity to create the results they truly desire
Where new patterns of thinking are nurtured
Where collective aspiration is set free
Where people are continually learning to see the whole together
“When you ask people about what it is like being part of a great team, what is most striking is the meaningfulness of the experience. People talk about being part of something larger than themselves, of being connected, of being generative.”
2. PhD graduate from
MIT in Systems
Management
Founding chair of
SOL (Society for
Organizational
Learning)
1990 wrote The
Fifth Discipline
2
Vasudevan Fifth discipline
4. Vasudevan Fifth discipline 4
*
Systems Thinking
Interdependency and change
Focus on whole not individual parts
Long-term goals vs. Short-term
benefits
Better appreciation of systems
leads to more appropriate action
6. Vasudevan Fifth discipline 6
*Personal Mastery
Organizations learn
only through
individuals who learn.
Strive to clarify and
deepen personal
vision.
Deeply aware of
growth areas and
Tension between
Vision and Reality
7. Vasudevan Fifth discipline 7
*Mental Models
Deeply ingrained
assumptions and
generalizations
Honest and critical
scrutiny of entrenched
mental models
Transcend mental
models in order for
change to take place
8. Vasudevan Fifth discipline 8
*Shared Vision
A genuine vision leads to
people wanting to excel and
learn
Leaders must translate
personal visions into shared
visions
Unearthing shared ‘pictures of
the future’ that foster genuine
commitment rather than
compliance
Leaders learn the counter-
productiveness of trying to
dictate a vision, no matter how
heartfelt.
(Senge 1990: 9)
9. Vasudevan Fifth discipline 9
*
Team Learning
Team learning starts with
‘dialogue’= the capacity of
members of a team to
suspend assumptions and
enter genuine ‘thinking
together’
Allows the group to
discover insights not
attainable individually
Shows group how to
recognize the patterns of
interaction that undermine
learning
(Senge 1990: 10)
10. 10
*A Learning Organization Is...
Where people continually expand
their capacity to create the results
they truly desire
Where new patterns of thinking are
nurtured
Where collective aspiration is set
free
Where people are continually
learning to see the whole together
“When you ask people about what it
is like being part of a great team,
what is most striking is the
meaningfulness of the experience.
People talk about being part of
something larger than themselves,
of being connected, of being
generative.”
(Senge 1990: 13)