The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of the Learning Organization

The Fifth Discipline by Senge. Also a great introduction to systems thinking. Also everything written by Goldratt. In particular: The Goal and It's not luck Both are business novels, they read lightly but the lessons are profound.

I am reading The Fifth Discipline by Peter M. Senge at the moment. It is a fantastic book that came out in the 90s and was updated in the 00s. It describes the need and practical solutions to systemic thinking for a learning / adaptive organization. It covers a lot of different areas: - introduction to systemic thinking (via a very good example and then a formalised introduction to three often occuring systems) - personal mastery (life long learning with a reflective attitude) as foundation for a learning organization (i.e. how can personal self improvement be scaled up to a similar process with many people involved while keeping everything together) - practical examples at the end (I have not read that part yet, I am just inferring from the chapter titles) Even that I have not read the book completely, it is now one of the books I always recommend when friends with interest in founding a startup ask me for advice. It is one of the very few "management" (loose category) books I have read that I actually found useful and actionable. Only problem is that it is quite big so it takes dedication to read through it. Edited for formatting, title..