Peter Senge - Definition and Overview

Peter M. Senge was the Director of the Center for Organizational Learning at the MIT Sloan School of Management and presently (2004) heads the Society for Organizational Learning, SOL. He emerged in the 1990s as a major figure in organizational development with his book The Fifth Discipline where he developed the notion of a learning organization, which views organizations as dynamical systems (as defined in Systemics) in a state of continuous adaptation and improvement .

References

• Senge, P. (1990). The Fifth Discipline: The art and practice of the learning organization, Doubleday, New York, 1990.
• Peter Senge. The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook
• Peter Senge. The Dance of Change
• Peter Senge et al. Presence: Human Purpose and the Field of the Future

See also

• organizational learning
• strategic management
• strategy dynamics

External links

• SoL, Society for Organizational Learning (http://solonline.org/)
• Stanford Learning Organization Web (SLOW) (http://www.stanford.edu/group/SLOW/index.html)
• Peter Senge Bio (http://www.wie.org/bios/peter-senge.asp)