Understanding continuous learning
In 1990, Peter Senge published The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization. In it, he described the qualities or disciplines that companies need to become learning organizations.
A learning organization allows for learning to develop from the efforts of the people that work for it. This learning facilitates a continuous transformation of the organization so that it can strive for improvement. In today’s business environment, the organization that learns quicker than its competitors has a distinct advantage.
Senge identified the following five characteristics or disciplines that learning organizations must have:
- Personal mastery
- Mental models
- Shared vision
- Team learning
- Systems thinking
As organizations work on the first four disciplines, the fifth discipline, systems thinking emerges to take the organization to the next level in becoming a learning organization.
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