Disciplines of Learning Organizations Peter Senge

Disciplines of Learning Organizations Peter Senge

1. Learning organizations are where people continually expand their capacity to create the results they truly desire.

   • 1) They are able to commit 100% to the vision of the company adopting it as their own..
     • 2) They are able to work as team with hight efficiency and creativity.
       • 3) Group of people who are continually enchancing their capabilities to create what they want to create.
         • 4) Every member of the organization is valued, capable to support and contribute more than normal.

2. System thinking

   • Considers the whole and its parts and the connections between them.
   • 1968 Ludwing Von Bertalanffy
   • You start by realizing that there is no inherent end to a system.
     • Key Questions: why do problems appear?, how things happen?, when things happen? which strategies should be considered in the short, medium and long term?

3. Personal Mastery

   • Is a set of specific principles and practices that enables a person to learn, create a personal vision, and view the world objectively.
     • It's an image of the future that you desire.
     • It's when we know who we are that we can get the ability to:
       • Identify ourselves with the organizatonal vision
         • Foster other people to reach their goals
           • *Understanding yourself *Loving oneself * Self discipline *Positive Attitude *Balance in Life
   • Creative tension
     • This tension looks for solutions and the best solution is making our reality closer to what we desire.
     • "emotional tension"
       • Where we kept all our fears, doubts and tags.

4. Mental Models

   • Conceptual fameworks consisting of generalizations and assumptions from which we understand the world and take action in it.
   • They are our paradigms, they sometimes limit our vision and way of acting.

5. Shared Vision

   • Abraham Maslow while studyin HPT. Discovered that the most important characteristic is SHARED VISION.
   • The practice of shared vision involves skills of unearthing shared "picture future" that foster genuine commitment and enrollment rather than compliance.
   • Creating it is not cascading communication. It's about building it together, mixing top down and bottom up communication efforts

6. Team work

   • "Organizations need to work as families"
   • Effective team work leads to results which individuals could not have achieved on their own and individuals within a team learn more and faster than they would have without the team.
   • Through team learning, the lerning ability of the group becomes greater than the learning ability of any individual in the group.