Organisational learning
Peter Senge
b. 1947
The learning organisation, stripped of caricature, is concrete: forums where disconfirming information travels upward without cost.
Read alongside: Shape
- Start with
- The Fifth Discipline (1990)
- Where they resist the book
- The idea has been implemented mostly as training. What survives is the plumbing, not the programme.
Works worth the time
The Fifth Discipline · 1990
Read for the plumbing — how disconfirming information travels upward — not for the programme.
Read further
- MIT Sloan School of Management: Peter M. Senge ↗
MIT Sloan School of Management
- Wikipedia: Peter Senge ↗
Wikipedia
Where Senge appears
V. The PracticeManagement theory
Judgement is an organisational capability, not a personal trait.
The learning organisation is easy to caricature and hard to build. What survives the caricature is concrete: forums where disconfirming information travels upward without cost, and where the reflective conversation is scheduled rather than hoped for.