Showing posts with label the Fifth Discipline. Show all posts
Showing posts with label the Fifth Discipline. Show all posts

Monday, November 8, 2010

Words from Chapter 12 of Senge's "The Fifth Discipline"

An Anarchist Archetype Hero
Knife's Edge: 
"The mind keeps wanting to move away form suspending assumptions to adaption non-negotiable and rigid opinions which we then feel compelled to defend."244

Symptomatic Solution:
Defensive routines that eliminate the learning gap by reducing the perceived need for learning. pg 253

Fragmentation: 
the tendency of thought to break things apart.  pg 266


Language for Complexity:  
collective language that is designed to make it easier to discuss complex issues objectively and dispassionately. pg 268

Tomorrow-Vocabulary from  Chapter 13  Openness- answering the question: How can the politics and game playing that dominate traditional organizations be transcended? 

Senge, Peter M.  The Fifth Discipline (New York; DoubleDay Currency, 1990) 234-269.