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Summary: A revolution in thinking about what you do and why you do it
Review: At last a practical down-to-earth book that accepts that human behaviour exists in the business world. This book will change your perceptions and approach to life and business permanently. Excellent links to related books and authors. Applying the techniques has shown the results promised and generated an avalanche of interest form colleagues. Compulsory reading for any business planning on being successful.
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Summary: Moves elegantly between concepts and every day reality.
Review: Bridging the gap between text and context, The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook offers everyone a deep and refreshing look at what work can be and should be. The authors ground their stories, examples, exercises in five conceptual touchstones--personal mastery, mental models, shared vision, team learning, and systems thinking. And these disciplines accurately reveal three core tasks in leadership: looking at self, developing others, and seeing the larger picture in order to chart a meaningful course. Stories enliven the ideas while examples and exercises offer practical models to use in any organization. Generous side margins, different colored ink, and graphic icons are visual treats as well as immediate graphic guides. And the narrative references to related issues make reading the book more intuitive, more interesting. In fact, these physical details model the whole point of the book--that learning is essential for sustainable growth, for organizational and personal development.
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Summary: The dust bunnies will never use this book as their home!
Review: EVERYONE I know who has read this book, and that includes an amazingly diverse group of folks from all walks of life and levels within their respective organizations, has either bought a second (or third) copy of this book to give a friend or is toting around a dog-earred, yellow-highlighted, post-it tabbed copy of their own. They seem to have this overwhelming need to work a favorite FIFTH DISCIPLINE FIELDBOOK quote into every meaningful conversation and get a weird look in their eyes when they meet a fellow "Fieldbook Fiend." This book has spawned an incredibly loyal following. Almost cult-like. Its enhancement and amplification of Peter Senge's Five Disciplines and his Guiding Ideas, Innovative Infrastructures, and Methods/Tools/Theories elicits a flow of words like love, cherish, enjoy, inspirational, and wonderful from the mouths of the faithful. The 60 some contributors to this book make it a dynamic, living document that seems to speak to each reader in a different way. With each reading (and everyone reads it more than once!), one feels a stirring in their soul and a rising conviction that I - little 'ol me - CAN make a difference at home, at school, or at work. Chock full of useful ideas, tested techniques, helpful case studies, meaningful advice, and wonderful stories of hope, THE FIFTH DISCIPLINE FIELDBOOK will never just sit on a shelf. I strongly recommend first time buyers obtain a leather book cover and slip it on right from the start. Or, buy two copies. Save yourself the effort of having to log back on and go to AMAZON.COM to buy it later!!!
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Summary: Excellent tools for consultant
Review: Everyone who reads THE FIFTH DISCIPLINE comes away excited about the benefits of having a learning organization. Yet many get stuck in a rut as they try to implement what they learned in that superb book. THE FIFTH DISCIPLINE FIELD BOOK helps fill in that lack of understanding with dozens of questions, examples and exercises. You'll have a ball with this, even if you only use a little part to focus on where you need help. A great related book for building a learning organization is THE 2,000 PERCENT SOLUTION, which teaches a new thinking process that simplifies and speeds up learning for an organization. It also shows you where you need to get rid of old thinking that is holding you back. You should read and use both.
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Summary: ADVANCED ADVICE FOR BUILDING A LEARNING ORGANIZATION
Review: Everyone who reads THE FIFTH DISCIPLINE comes away excited about the benefits of having a learning organization. Yet many get stuck in a rut as they try to implement what they learned in that superb book. THE FIFTH DISCIPLINE FIELD BOOK helps fill in that lack of understanding with dozens of questions, examples and exercises. You'll have a ball with this, even if you only use a little part to focus on where you need help. A great related book for building a learning organization is THE 2,000 PERCENT SOLUTION, which teaches a new thinking process that simplifies and speeds up learning for an organization. It also shows you where you need to get rid of old thinking that is holding you back. You should read and use both.
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Summary: some sort of "business pantheism"
Review: From the beginning in the Fifth Discipline Field Book is stablished the holistic character of all the Fifth Discipline stuff. It is clear from the application of those three guiding keys, that the part does not play any role in the business drama, as seen from the fifth discipline point of reference. The part is less important than the whole, and this means an absence of the hierarchy concept, and the flatten tendency as a result, and which result too in some sort of "business pantheism", in which the whole is the absolute. In practical terms, that whole is represented by the team, so the decision consequences whether wrong or good, are lost in the team, in the committee. Though it is a work that cannot be judged by being dualistic, but a work that should be read or even studied, as those disciplines, that has to do with the part, with the individual, such as Personal Mastery and Mental Models are quite important and useful, for our personal growth.
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Summary: some sort of "business pantheism"
Review: From the beginning in the Fifth Discipline Field Book is stablished the holistic character of all the Fifth Discipline stuff. It is clear from the application of those three guiding keys, that the part does not play any role in the business drama, as seen from the fifth discipline point of reference. The part is less important than the whole, and this means an absence of the hierarchy concept, and the flatten tendency as a result, and which result too in some sort of "business pantheism", in which the whole is the absolute. In practical terms, that whole is represented by the team, so the decision consequences whether wrong or good, are lost in the team, in the committee. Though it is a work that cannot be judged by being dualistic, but a work that should be read or even studied, as those disciplines, that has to do with the part, with the individual, such as Personal Mastery and Mental Models are quite important and useful, for our personal growth.
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Summary: On the Fifth Discipline Fieldbook....
Review: I am, actually, one of the five authors of the Fifth Discipline Fieldbook - it was compiled by Peter Senge, Charlotte Roberts, Rick Ross, Bryan Smith, and myself - and I am also editorial director of the book. We tried, in the Fieldbook, to develop a new form of management writing: To find the examples of great business practice in the field, and describe them so that others can learn from them. That means not just picking up "best practices" but understanding the reasoning which led to those best practices. For that reason, the Fieldbook is a compendium of stories, exercises, recipes for action, essays, book reviews, etc. We have a website that may help readers get an idea of our work (see below). On this website, we'll be announcing shortly the creation of two new Fieldbooks for different types of learning organizations. Other books by Fieldbook authors include The Fifth Discipline by Peter Senge and The Age of Heretics by myself. -- Art Kleiner
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Summary: Excellent tools for consultant
Review: I appreciate very much this book as a support of my activity of consultant. I have found not easy to connect his content with the content of the main Senge Book, The fifth discipline
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Summary: Absolute must for instructional designers
Review: I do love this book. I constantly refer to it. I honestly can't imagine the world without Peter Senge's work. This book is very accessible. The format of the content is an excellent example of good instructional design. It is incredibly user-friendly. If you are involved in education, business, corporate training or anything remotely related and wonder how you can make a difference, read and use this book.
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