Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Peter Senge, founder of the Society of Organizational Learning and senior lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management, once observed, “Most managers do not reflect carefully on their actions.” Most managers are too busy “running” to reflect. We wind up shuttered in our ability to think about possibilities.

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Six Disciplines

APRIL 27, 2011

“Full of incredibly useful tools and charts -- all about how small businesses execute strategy.” “The approach is current and I love that it ties technology and systems with strategy. Skip Angel, Random Thoughts of a CTO). ” (Gary Slinger, Slinger’s Thoughts). ” (Anita Campbell, SMB Trend Wire).

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

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. They make bad decisions. And in some cases they compound bad decision upon bad decision. Great post and very insightful blog!

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

Hank is the highest level of business overview expert and is in that rarified circle of experts such as Peter Drucker, Tom Peters, Steven Covey, Peter Senge and W. Edwards Deming. Hank has presented Think Tanks for five U.S. Presidents. He has spoken at five Economic Summits. He has conducted 300+ performance reviews of organizations.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2011

The Fifth Discipline , by Peter Senge. Although Senge's book was first published over 20 years ago, it remains one of the best explanations of this approach to analyzing problems. First, it brilliantly reveals the flaws in just about every best-selling strategy book of the past three decades. Systems thinking" is the key.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Ever since the publication of Peter Senge’s The Fifth Discipline , 25 years ago, companies have sought to become “learning organizations” that continually transform themselves. 5 Strategy Questions Every Leader Should Make Time For. In strategy, an entire generation grew up with Michael Porter’s five forces.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2011

Roughly, I'd suggest that they're strategy, marketing, finance, and the rest of the drear, dismal, passionless stuff that makes most of us snooze through meetings and dread the arrival of Monday morning, dilberting our joint prosperity, perpetually disappointing our ever-more apathetic customers, and gleefully embezzling from the future.

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Chart Your Course

JUNE 30, 2016

by Peter Senge. Senge, a lecturer in leadership at the MIT Sloan School of Management, became a household name to mangers with the release of The Fifth Discipline. The 5 domains of EQ are: 1) Self-Awareness, 2) Self-Regulation, 3) Motivation, 4) Empathy, 5) Social Skills. ” 10. Winning (2005). By Jack Welch.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2011

And while I'm delighted that giants (many of my intellectual heroes, truth be told) like Porter, Peter Senge, Gary Hamel, Martin Wolf, and others agree, it's another matter to get to the other side. That financial "profit" is the best representation of the enduring wealth a firm creates.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

Brown described how localizing research activities is a key component of that strategy. A*STAR Managing Director Low Teck Seng used that phrase to describe how Singapore appears on a map. The Red Dot."

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2012

You know that social interactions with the marketplace are becoming a source for innovation, strategy, product development, organizational alignment, and pretty much every important thing your organization does. Leadership position no longer matters as much as leadership itself (a distinction Peter Senge wrote about in The Fifth Discipline ).

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Of all the definitions, I like Peter Senge''s old but simple one best. Senge''s distinction between detail complexity (driven by the number of variables) and dynamic complexity (heightened by any subtlety between cause and effect) is not only key to explaining why some overhyped tools don''t deliver. Operations Research Strategy'

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First Friday Book Synopsis

AUGUST 23, 2011

Here is an excerpt from an article written by Nilofer Merchant for the Harvard Business Review blog series, “The Conversation.&# To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR email alerts, please click here. * * * Trust, fights, and child care. When I’m [.].

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2011

Many other experts, such as Senge and Kotter have certainly added to that understanding with complex and nuanced constructs, but Caldwell's invisible glue comment holds a truth. After working on strategy for 20 years, I can say this: culture will trump strategy, every time. But that doesn't mean it can't be decoded.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

They've been given a public voice for the company and the ability to interface directly with customers, irate or happy, but they aren't connected to the overall strategy of the company. One of my favorite books of all-time has been The Fifth Discipline (1990) by Peter Senge. These are social ideas, not social media or social marketing.

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