Topic > The Fifth Discipline by Peter Senge - 527

Peter Senge's book The Fifth Discipline is truly an authority on "systems thinking". This is a leadership framework used by organizations to improve learning within their system. Senge further develops a strategy for how we can renew our minds to see the dynamic complexity within a given system. Senge defines an element of dynamic complexity within systems thinking as “seeing the whole”. (p. 68). He describes that we can develop a framework for seeing interrelationships rather than just a “snapshot.” (p. 68). This is why Senge emphasizes that we need to renew our thinking about how we perceive the world: “Perhaps for the first time in history, humankind has the capacity to create far more information than anyone can absorb, to foster a interdependence far greater than anyone can manage, and to accelerate change far faster than anyone's ability to keep up… organizations collapse, despite individual brilliance and innovative products, because they are unable to bring together their disparate functions and talents in a productive whole”. (p. 69). As Senge mentions, this is the first time in history that humans a...