Fifth Discipline Fieldbook

Strategies and Tools for Building a Learning Organization

Selected references:

Why read this book? Page 7-12

Synopsis of the Five Disciplines Page 6-7

Discipline 1: Personal Mastery (Self Improvement/Staff Dev.)

Discipline 2: Mental Models (Paradigms, our internal pictures

of the world)

Discipline 3: Shared Vision (Building commitment)

Discipline 4: Team Learning (Synergy/Develop group

intelligence and ability greater than the sum of individual members)

Discipline 5: Systems Thinking (Seeing the whole and the

interrelationships of all the parts—curing the cow: not only stopping the “bleeding” but getting the whole cow well.

Personal Mastery: Page 198-200

Personal Visions Page 201-206

Professional and Personal Page 212

Mental Models Page 235-242 (Larry’s story)

Left Hand Column Page 246-252

Current Reality Page 195-196

Personal Mastery to Shared Vision

Learning Wheel – Individual Page 59-61

Team Page 61-63

Shared Vision Page 298-300

Communications Page 260-264

Purpose and Core Values Page 308-309

Telling to co-creating Page 314-338

Current Reality Page 337-338

Team Learning

Dialogue Page 357-364

Components of a Dialogue Session Page 377-379

Undiscussables Page 404-406

Having the difficult conversations; conversations that matters.

Systems Thinking

Systems Learnings Page 91-94

Storytelling Page 97-105

Quick Fixes Pgee 125-129

Shifting the Burden Page 135-140

Learning Organizations

Public Schools Page 490-492

Communities Page 502-504

The Five Whys Page 105-112

What you can expect? Page 91-94

Learning to see the world