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Are These Systems Serving or Subverting Organization Results?

The Practical Leader

Goals, objectives, measurements, and career paths move up and down within the narrow, functional “chimney walls.” As engineer and co-founder of the Center for Systems Awareness, Peter Senge, said in The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of The Learning Organization , “Structure influences behavior.

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Taking Charge of YOUR Learning

QAspire

Organizations are in a state of constant flux with business models becoming obsolete, new models emerging and new technologies disrupting businesses/individuals. Peter Senge: How to Overcome Learning Disabilities in Organizations. In a world where shelf life of knowledge is continuously shrinking, we need. relentless practice and.

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CMI Malaysia: updates from the board

Chartered Management Institute

CMI Malaysia at IET Gala On 18 February, representatives from CMI Malaysia attended the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) Malaysia prestige lecture and award dinner. “Enjoy, learn, unlearn and reframe and, as always, if you need even more details, reach out and enquire.” Listen to their discussion here !

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Why Businesses Fail | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Peter Senge addressed this dilemma in his book The Fifth Discipline and accurately discerned that sound leadership decisions are based on systemic analysis before making a decision. Many of the poor decisions I've made and have witnessed other leaders make stemmed from 'attacking' phantom problems.

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Fixing the Malaise in U.S. High Tech

Harvard Business Review

What has kept our standard of living one of the highest in the world is our ability to find new ways of doing things; invent exciting and disruptive technologies; and create captivating novel products, processes, and services that delight customers. Senge's concept of learning is not just sitting in a classroom.

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The Management Thinker We Should Never Have Forgotten

Harvard Business Review

He was 90 when he wrote the following to Peter Senge (who recounted the correspondence in his influential The Fifth Discipline ): Our prevailing system of management has destroyed our people. It may be cliché to say that technology is changing our businesses today at a rapid pace, but that doesn’t mean it’s not true.

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Are You Building Facebook's Empire, Or Your Own?

Harvard Business Review

Social tools were enabling everyday people to break through traditional barriers to connect, build their audiences and careers and get more creative than ever before. One of my favorite books of all-time has been The Fifth Discipline (1990) by Peter Senge. In the early days of what was called Web 2.0, the excitement was palpable.

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