What are the Five Disciplines of Senge?

The five disciplines of Peter Sense is a model used to identify organizational ‘learning disabilities’ and use the “Five Disciplines” as antidotes to them.
 

The five components in the model from Senge are:

1. Systems Thinking. The integrative (fifth) discipline that fuses the other 4 into a coherent body of theory and practice.
2. Personal Mastery. People must regard their life and their work such as an artist would regard a work of art.
3. Mental Models. Deeply ingrained assumptions or mental images that influence how we understand the world and how we take action.
4. Building Shared Vision. If there is a genuine vision, people excel and learn, not because they have to, but because they want to.
5. Team Learning. Team-members participate in true dialogue. They suspend their assumptions.

All these 5 disciplines must be employed in a never-ending quest to expand the capacity of the organization to create its future. 

Learning Organizations are those organizations that can go beyond survival learning, to perform generative learning: a form of learning that enhances their capacity to create.