Five Disciplines (Senge) - Explained
What are the 5 Disciplines of Senge?
Written by J. Mance Gordon
Updated at April 22nd, 2024
- Marketing, Advertising, Sales & PR
- Accounting, Taxation, and Reporting
- Professionalism & Career Development
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Law, Transactions, & Risk Management
Government, Legal System, Administrative Law, & Constitutional Law Legal Disputes - Civil & Criminal Law Agency Law HR, Employment, Labor, & Discrimination Business Entities, Corporate Governance & Ownership Business Transactions, Antitrust, & Securities Law Real Estate, Personal, & Intellectual Property Commercial Law: Contract, Payments, Security Interests, & Bankruptcy Consumer Protection Insurance & Risk Management Immigration Law Environmental Protection Law Inheritance, Estates, and Trusts
- Business Management & Operations
- Economics, Finance, & Analytics
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:
- Systems Thinking. The integrative (fifth) discipline that fuses the other 4 into a coherent body of theory and practice.
- Personal Mastery. People must regard their life and their work such as an artist would regard a work of art.
- Mental Models. Deeply ingrained assumptions or mental images that influence how we understand the world and how we take action.
- Building Shared Vision. If there is a genuine vision, people excel and learn, not because they have to, but because they want to.
- 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.