The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies and Tools for Building a Learning Organisation

Inside the world’s most highly regarded corporations, hundreds of thousands of dedicated employees, inspired by Peter Senge’s bestselling classic, The Fifth Discipline, are putting his ideas about learning organisations to ingenious use.

In this book you discover how to make his ideas work in your organisation as you learn.

• why Royal Dutch/Shell now asks its managers, “What do you want on your epitaph?”
• how Ford Motor Company escaped from the measurement trap that threatens all quality initiatives.
• how Intel developed forms of “team learning” to dramatically cut cycle time and change their working relationships.
• how the 18,000 employees of the Australian Taxation Office took charge of their own learning to bust their tired, burdensome bureaucracy.
• why Du Pont uses a board game to understand the emotional element of plant maintenance problems.
• how AT&T used the learning organisation concept to begin its transformation from a corporation to a global community.