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