THE FIFTH DISCIPLINEThe Art & Practice ofThe Learning Organization

Peter Senge is a Director of Systems Thinking, an organizational learning program at MIT, and is also a private business consultant. Senge and some of his colleagues for a long time have discussed what they call a learning organization. This book is a presentation of some of the lessons they have learned.
Relating it to the QPI "Virtual Management" System, the first three are probably the most mysterious of the QPI Principles. The first Principle, "An organization should strive constantly to improve and advance the interest of all its stakeholders", comes from deep understandings in mathematics. A book that explains that to some extent is The Goal by Goldratt.
The second and third Principles are particularly mysterious. The second Principle says, "Everything effects everything. All parts of an organization are interconnected in both known and unknown ways." The third Principle says, "All actions are important. Even very small ones can have very large, sometimes unpredictabl...