Systems thinking: The fifth discipline

PREVIOUS discussions dealt on systemic (second order) change and on four of the five disciplines to be acculturated in an organization – both in the leader and in the led --- to materialize much if not a hundred percent of their shared vision for their organization.

Thus, we borrowed heavily from Peter Senge, the change guru, and his advocates of how best to realize a desired future for one’s organization. To be able to accomplish this, change Guro Senge offers the processes and the language used in a learning organization – an organization that continually adopts to the environment and remains competitive because it continually learns together how to square off the future with all its uncertainties not only to survive but to raise its niche. Our past discussions described four of the disciplines to arrive at systemic change--personal mastery, mental models, team learning and shared vision.