Refer to "Chapter 1: Getting Started", The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook, pg 15.
Article by Peter Senge titled "Moving Forward, Thinking Strategically About Building Learning Organizations"
Don't bother teaching new ways of
thinking.  Instead give them a tool, the
use of which leads them to news ways of
thinking.  There are many tools and
methods vital to developing learning
organizations.  Much of that is covered
in The Fifth Discipline texts
There are three interrelated ideas that is
the philosophical core of the systems
perspective that guides all efforts to build
learning organization.  More on pg 25-27.
This is the means an
organization makes available
resources to support people in
their work; This ranges from
tangibles such as self-managing
work teams and new designs
for work processes to
intangibles such as learning
laboratories and forums to
encourage reflection and
conversations about
world-views that shape the
organizations' long-term health
and vitality.  More on pg 32-35.