Peter Senge

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Peter M. Senge was the Director of the Center for Organizational Learning at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and is presently (2005) on the faculty at MIT. He is the founding chair of the Society for Organizational Learning (SoL). Senge emerged in the 1990s as a major figure in organizational development with his book The Fifth Discipline where he developed the notion of a learning organization. This views organizations as dynamical systems (as defined in Systemics) in a state of continuous adaptation and improvement .

An engineer by training, Peter was a mentee of Jay Wright Forrester and has followed closely the works of Chris Argyris and Robert Fritz and based his books on pioneering works with the five disciplines in Ford, Chrysler, Shell, AT&T, Hannover Insurance, Harley-Davidson since the 70s and 80s through today.

[edit] References

• Senge, P. (1990). The Fifth Discipline: The art and practice of the learning organization, Doubleday, New York, 1990.
• Peter Senge et al (1994) The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook
• Peter Senge et al (1999). The Dance of Change
• Peter Senge et al. (2005) *Presence: An Exploration of Profound Change in People, Organizations, and Society. (This is a worldwide release of *Presence: Human Purpose and the Field of the Future", published in 2004.)

[edit] See also

• Organizational learning
• Systems thinking
• Strategy dynamics
• Strategic management

[edit] External links

• SoL, Society for Organizational Learning
• Senge at SoL
• Stanford Learning Organization Web (SLOW)
• Peter Senge Bio
• Peter Senge and the Learning Organization at the Infed Website
• Senge's teachings and its relevance to the Bhagavad Gita
• Peter Senge Profile Page - Video clip, book listings, speaking topics.

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