Peter Senge founder & director of the Society for Organisational Learning & senior lecturer at MIT has found the means of creating a 'learning organisation' In The Fifth Discipline he draws the blueprints for an organisation where people expand their capacity to create the results they truly desire where new & expansive patterns of thinking are nutured where collective aspiration is set free & where people are contually learning together The Fifth Discipline fuses these features together into a coherent body of theory & practice making the whole of an organisation more effective than the sum of its parts Mastering the disciplines will Reignite the spark of learning driven by people focused on what truly matters to them Bridge teamwork into macro-creativity Free you from confining assumptions & mind-sets Teach you to see the forest & the trees End the struggle between work & family time The Fifth Discipline is a remarkable book that draws on science spiritual values psychology the cutting edge of management thought & Senge's work with leading companies which employ Fifth Discipline methods Reading it provides a searching personal experience & a dramatic professional shift of mind This edition contains more than 100 pages of new material about how companies are actually using & benefiting from Fifth Discipline practices as well as a new foreword from Peter Senge about his work with the Fifth Discipline over the last 15 years