Draws on science, spiritual values, psychology, the cutting edge of management thought with leading companies which employ Fifth Discipline methods. This edition contains more than 100 pages of material about how companies are actually using and benefiting from Fifth Discipline practices.

This pragmatic guide shows how to create an organization of learners. The stories in this book show that businesses, schools, agencies and even communities can undo their learning disabilities and achieve superior performance.

Offers exercises, tools and techniques for sustaining organisational learning over the long term, as well as suggestions, advice, cautions and warnings based on the experience of people who have already followed the path suggested by the author in The Fifth Discipline .

Radical and hopeful, synthesises cutting-edge thinking, firsthand knowledge and ancient wisdom. Gives the reader an intimate look at the development of a new theory about change and learning.

A guide to applying the new science to organisations, and our lives. This book shows how examples of non-linear networks and organizations are flourishing in the modern world. It presents examples like the E-bay, search engines and viral marketing works which are based on self-organising dynamics.

Offers an exploration of the exact way community can emerge from fragmentation. This book explores a way of thinking about our places that creates an opening for authentic communities to exist and details what each of us can do to make that happen. It shows us how we can overcome isolation and anxiety and create communities alive with energy.

Shows you the tools, tricks and tips you need to fix the problems you face on a software development project on an on-going basis. This work also shows how to architect retrospectives in general, how to design them specifically for your team and organization, how to run them effectively, and how to make the needed changes.

Weaving together lessons from such international leaders as Siemens, Unilever, Skandia, and Sony, this work introduces knowledge enabling. It describes the five key knowledge enablers , and outlines what it takes to instill a knowledge vision, manage conversations, mobilize knowledge activists, and more.