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INTRODUCTION TO THE PAPERBACK EDITION
Some Tips for First-Time Readers
“I’m just interested in learning more.”
“I’m part of a study group on learning organizations.”
“I’m part of a company trying to become ‘a learning organization,’ whatever that is.”
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PART I: HOW OUR ACTIONS CREATE OUR REALITY... AND HOW WE CAN CHANGE IT
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Chapter 1: "GIVE ME A LEVER LONG ENOUGH . . . AND SINGLE-HANDED I CAN MOVE THE WORLD"
Systems Thinking
Personal Mastery
Mental Models
Building Shared Vision
Team Learning
Disciplines
The Fifth Discipline
A Shift of Mind
Putting into practice
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Chapter 2: DOES YOUR ORGANIZATION HAVE A LEARNING DISABILITY?
I am my position.
The enemy is out there.
The illusion of taking charge.
The fixation on events.
The parable of the boiled frogs.
The delusion of learning from experience.
The myth of the management team.
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Chapter 3: PRISONERS OF THE SYSTEM OR PRISONERS OF OUR OWN THINKING?
Principles of Systems Thinking:
Redefining your scope of influence
Learning abilities and our ways of thinking:
Events explanations
Patterns of behaviour explanations
Structural explanations
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PART II: THE FIFTH DISCIPLINE: THE CORNERSTONE OF THE LEARNING ORGANIZATION
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Chapter 4: THE LAWS OF THE FIFTH DISCIPLINE (11 LAWS)
Today’s problems come from yesterday’s “solutions”.
The harder you push, the harder the system pushes back.
Behavior grows better before it grows worse.
The easy way out usually leads back in.
The cure can be worse than the disease.
Faster is slower.
Cause and effect are not closely related in time and space.
Small changes can produce big results.
You can have your cake and eat it too – but not at once.
Dividing an elephant in half does not produce two small elephants.
There is no blame.
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Chapter 5: A SHIFT OF MIND – SEEING CIRCLES OF CAUSALITY AND DELAYS – WHEN THINGS
HAPPEN EVENTUALLY [Also click here: http://www.lopn.net/Questions_for_ST.html]
When does dynamic complexity happen?
Seeing circles of causality
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Chapter 7: THE PRINCIPLE OF LEVERAGE
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Chapter 8: THE ART OF SEEING THE FOREST AND THE TREES
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PART III: THE CORE DISCIPLINES: BUILDING THE LEARNING ORGANIZATION
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PART IV: PROTOTYPES – RESOLVING THE PRACTICAL PROBLEMS FACED IN TRADITIONAL
ORGANIZATIONS
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Chapter 15: A MANAGER'S TIME
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Chapter 16: ENDING THE WAR BETWEEN WORK AND FAMILY
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Chapter 17: MICROWORLDS: THE TECHNOLOGY OF THE LEARNING ORGANIZATION
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Chapter 18: THE LEADER'S NEW WORK
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PART V: CODA
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Chapter 19: A SIXTH DISCIPLINE?
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Chapter 20: REWRITING THE CODE
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Chapter 21: THE INDIVISIBLE WHOLE
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Appendix l: The Learning Disciplines
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Appendix 2: Systems Archetypes
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