The Fifth Discipline

The Fifth Discipline cover

Senge, P. (2006) The Fifth Discipline: The art and practice of the learning organization, New York, Doubleday.

This book is an updated edition of Senge’s seminal work on the importance of companies becoming learning organizations.

Part 1: How our actions create our reality… and how we can change it

Ch. 1: “Give me a lever long enough… and single-handed I can move the world”

Ch. 2: Does your organization have a learning disability?

Ch. 3: Prisoners of the system, or prisoners of our own thinking?

Part 2: The fifth discipline: The cornerstone of the learning organization

Ch. 4: The laws of the fifth discipline

Ch. 5: A shift of mind

Ch. 6: Nature’s template: Identifying the patterns that control events

Ch. 7: Self-limiting or self-sustaining growth

Part 3: The core disciplines: Building the learning organization

Ch. 8: Personal mastery

Ch. 9: Mental models

Ch. 10: Shared vision

Ch. 11: Team learning

Part 4: Reflections from practice

Ch. 12: Foundations

Ch. 13: Impetus

Ch. 14: Strategies

Ch. 15: The leader’s new work

Ch. 16: Systems citizens

Ch. 17: Frontiers

Part 5: Coda

Ch. 18: The indivisible whole