The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of the Learning Organization82 reviews Peter M. Senge Doubleday Business, 2006 Seminal Work + Don't Become Road Kill! + Brilliant ideas, but sadly still rarely implemented The Fifth Discipline is a seminal book by the famous author Peter M. Senge. The book teaches the concept of the learning organization namely that the successful organization must continually adapt and learn in order to respond to changes in the environment effectively and therefore to grow and ...             The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook17 reviews Peter M. Senge, Art Kleiner, ... Doubleday Business, 1994 A second dose of Inspiration... + Tools for creating a Learning Culture + enlightening concepts about leadership + The Fifth Discipline + A follow up to the legend             Schools That Learn: A Fifth Discipline Fieldbook for Educators, Parents, and Everyone Who Cares About ...9 reviews Peter M. Senge, Nelda H. Cambron McCabe, ... Doubleday Business, 2000 A great resource book for educators + Schools That Learn + Schools should all be learning organizations + Length appeared overwhelming--but well worth it + Well Researched Current Education for all Student's Success             The Complete Guide to Systems Thinking & Learning4 reviews Stephen G. Haines HRD Press, 2000 Great book for any management professional that needs tips on accomplishing goals and who lacks time + Comprenensive and Systematic + I finally get what people mean when they say the "whole" picture. + Excellent Book on Systems Thinking             Crisp: Successful Strategic Planning: The Systems Thinking Approach to Building a High Performance Business ...1 review Stephen G. Haines Crisp Learning, 1995 A step-by-step, easy-to-implement strategic planning system This book shows how to use "backwards thinking" to get ahead by creating a vision and using a strategic planning model based on systems thinking. As a manager, I learned how to avoid typical planning mistakes and develop a plan for all kinds of multi-level change management. The step-by-step ...             Ackoff's Best: His Classic Writings on Management4 reviews Russell L. Ackoff Wiley, 1999 Journey into the mind of a great thinker. + Great collection of essays + Ackoffs 2nd Best - right after Re-creating the Corporation + Highly Recommended!             A Prologue to National Development Planning (Contributions in Economics and Economic History)1 review Jamshid Gharajedaghi, Russell L. Ackoff Greenwood Press, 1986 Great addition to economics... This book is a very good supplement to any economics library, as it seeks to develop ideas of idealized designs for a country to gain development. It seeks to understand what parameters predispose a country for development, rather than taking the usual hands-off approach classical economics does. ...             The Art of Problem Solving: Accompanied by Ackoff's Fables2 reviews Russell L. Ackoff Wiley, 1987 Interesting and useful A good balance of short, easily-digested messages and more in-depth studies that require careful attention. The many short fables are described (on page 120) as making "the creative part of problem solving look either too easy or too mysterious. Creativity is not just a flashing insight. Such ...             Re-Creating the Corporation: A Design of Organizations for the 21st Century5 reviews Russell L. Ackoff Oxford University Press, USA, 1999 "There are no simple solutions to complex problems". + Truly Ackoff's Best + Organizational Design to Apply The Fifth Discipline + Highly Readable and Very Articulate + Highly Readable and Very Articulate             Systems Thinking: Managing Chaos and Complexity: A Platform for Designing Business Architecture23 reviews Jamshid Gharajedaghi Butterworth-Heinemann, 1999 Don't be afraid, + A True Cipher Key To Business Design / Re-Engineering + Managing Chaos and Complexity: A Platform for Designing Business Architecture This is really aimed at the reader who wishes to work on the transformation of whole organisations. Demonstrating the multi-dimensional relationships between organisational design, performance and behaviour. This work has had a profound effect on my thinking and development of management ideas. ...             Ackoff's Best: His Classic Writings on Management4 reviews Russell L. Ackoff Wiley, 1999 Journey into the mind of a great thinker. + Great collection of essays + Ackoffs 2nd Best - right after Re-creating the Corporation + Highly Recommended!             Crisp: Successful Strategic Planning: The Systems Thinking Approach to Building a High Performance Business ...1 review Stephen G. Haines Crisp Learning, 1995 A step-by-step, easy-to-implement strategic planning system This book shows how to use "backwards thinking" to get ahead by creating a vision and using a strategic planning model based on systems thinking. As a manager, I learned how to avoid typical planning mistakes and develop a plan for all kinds of multi-level change management. The step-by-step ...             Schools That Learn: A Fifth Discipline Fieldbook for Educators, Parents, and Everyone Who Cares About ...9 reviews Peter M. Senge, Nelda H. Cambron McCabe, ... Doubleday Business, 2000 A great resource book for educators + Schools That Learn + Schools should all be learning organizations + Length appeared overwhelming--but well worth it + Well Researched Current Education for all Student's Success             The Complete Guide to Systems Thinking & Learning4 reviews Stephen G. Haines HRD Press, 2000 Great book for any management professional that needs tips on accomplishing goals and who lacks time + Comprenensive and Systematic + I finally get what people mean when they say the "whole" picture. + Excellent Book on Systems Thinking             The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook17 reviews Peter M. Senge, Art Kleiner, ... Doubleday Business, 1994 A second dose of Inspiration... + Tools for creating a Learning Culture + enlightening concepts about leadership + The Fifth Discipline + A follow up to the legend             The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of the Learning Organization82 reviews Peter M. Senge Doubleday Business, 2006 Seminal Work + Don't Become Road Kill! + Brilliant ideas, but sadly still rarely implemented The Fifth Discipline is a seminal book by the famous author Peter M. Senge. The book teaches the concept of the learning organization namely that the successful organization must continually adapt and learn in order to respond to changes in the environment effectively and therefore to grow and ...             Systems Thinking: Managing Chaos and Complexity: A Platform for Designing Business Architecture23 reviews Jamshid Gharajedaghi Butterworth-Heinemann, 1999 Don't be afraid, + A True Cipher Key To Business Design / Re-Engineering + Managing Chaos and Complexity: A Platform for Designing Business Architecture This is really aimed at the reader who wishes to work on the transformation of whole organisations. Demonstrating the multi-dimensional relationships between organisational design, performance and behaviour. This work has had a profound effect on my thinking and development of management ideas. ...             A Prologue to National Development Planning (Contributions in Economics and Economic History)1 review Jamshid Gharajedaghi, Russell L. Ackoff Greenwood Press, 1986 Great addition to economics... This book is a very good supplement to any economics library, as it seeks to develop ideas of idealized designs for a country to gain development. It seeks to understand what parameters predispose a country for development, rather than taking the usual hands-off approach classical economics does. ...             The Art of Problem Solving: Accompanied by Ackoff's Fables2 reviews Russell L. Ackoff Wiley, 1987 Interesting and useful A good balance of short, easily-digested messages and more in-depth studies that require careful attention. The many short fables are described (on page 120) as making "the creative part of problem solving look either too easy or too mysterious. Creativity is not just a flashing insight. Such ...             Re-Creating the Corporation: A Design of Organizations for the 21st Century5 reviews Russell L. Ackoff Oxford University Press, USA, 1999 "There are no simple solutions to complex problems". + Truly Ackoff's Best + Organizational Design to Apply The Fifth Discipline + Highly Readable and Very Articulate + Highly Readable and Very Articulate