American management theorist at MIT who popularized systems thinking and the learning organization — arguing that organizations must develop the capacity to learn if they are to thrive in a complex world.
The Fifth Discipline: the five disciplines of a learning organization — personal mastery, mental models, shared vision, team learning, and systems thinking (the fifth). Systems archetypes: recurring system patterns ('fixes that fail,' 'shifting the burden') that trap organizations in self-defeating dynamics. The dance of change: the systemic obstacles to sustaining organizational learning.
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