Fifth Discipline

Fifth Discipline
This Book is Divided Into 5 Parts
And First Part Of this book talks about “How Our Actions Create Our Realty and How
We Can Change it”.
Learning organization-The ability to learn faster than your competitors,"
Royal Dutch/Shell, " Said in this chapter that “As the world becomes more
interconnected and business becomes more complex and dynamic, work must
become more learningful.”
DISCIPLINES OF THE LEARNING ORGANIZATION\
After 1903 when Wright brothers found powered flight is possible but it
takes 30 years when commercial flight is possible.
“Basic Innovation”: - The innovation are Sufficiently important, such as the
telephone, the digital computer, or commercial aircraft, it is called a "basic
innovation,".
Component Technology :- when Idea become invention to innovation

McDonnell Douglas DC-3 1935
myriad experiments with commercial flight had failed. Like early
experiments with learning organizations, the early planes were not reliable
and cost effective on an appropriate scale.
The DC-3brought together five critical component technologies

They were:
1. the variable-pitch propeller,
2. retractable landing gear,
3. a type of lightweight molded body construction called "monocque,"
4. radial air-cooled engine,
5. wing flaps
For plane all 5 components are required earlier in boing 247 it not have wing
flaps so boing 247 struggle during take-off and landing
cloud masses, the sky darkens, leaves twist upward, and we

know that it will rain. These all are connected with each other
You can only understand the system of a rainstorm by
contemplating the whole, not any individual part of the pattern.
Business and other human endeavours are also systems. They, too, are bound
by invisible fabrics of interrelated actions,
Systems thinking is a conceptual framework, a body of

knowledge and tools that has been developed over the past fifty years, to
make the full patterns clearer, and to help us see how to change them
effectively.
experiments with young children show that they learn systems thinking very
quickly.
Personal Mastery_ People with a high level of personal mastery are able to
consistently realize the results that matter most deeply to them— in effect,
they approach their life as an artist would approach a work of art. They do
that by becoming committed to their own life long learning.
Personal mastery is essential for learning organisation
It is important for all organisation to support in learning organisation
Mental Models. Is all about how we understand the world and how we take
action ‘
For example someone who dresses shabbily, we may feel, "He doesn't care
about what others think.
Royal Dutch/Shell, they discovered how pervasive was the influence of
hidden mental models, especially those that become widely shared.
Arie de Geus, Shell's recently retired Coordinator of Group Planning, says

that continuous adaptation and growth in a changing business environment
depends on "institutional learning, which is the process whereby
management teams change their shared mental models of the company,
their markets, and their competitors.
mental models starts with turning the mirror

inward; learning to unearth our internal pictures of the world, to bring them
to
the surface and hold them rigorously to scrutiny.
Building Shared Vision. many leaders have personal visions that never get
translated into shared visions that galvanize an organization a crisis that
galvanizes everyone temporarily but most people opt for pursuing a lofty
goal, not only in times of crisis but at all times. Skills of unearthing shared "pictures of
the future" that foster genuine commitment and enrolment rather than compliance. In
mastering this discipline, leaders learn the counter productiveness of trying to
dictate a vision, no matter how heartfelt.
Team Learning. The discipline of team learning starts with "dialogue," the
capacity of members
of a team to suspend assumptions and enter into a genuine "thinking
together."
Greeks dia-logos meant allowing the group to discover insights not attainable
individually
Now the meaning of dialog is different (Dialogue differs from the more
common "discussion," which has its roots with "percussion" and
"concussion,"
"the rubber meets the road";
If a learning organization were an engineering innovation, such as the

airplane or
the personal computer, the components would be called "technologies."
Here author talks about discipline discipline," I do not mean an "enforced

order" or "means of punishment," but a
body of theory and technique that must be studied and mastered to be put into
practice.
Some people have but some can master it by practice
Practicing a discipline is different from emulating "a model."
Fifth Discipline
It is the discipline that

integrates the disciplines, fusing them into a coherent body of theory and
practice. It keeps them from being separate gimmicks or the latest
organization change fads. Without a systemic orientation, there is no
motivation to look at how the disciplines interrelate.
Ending the war between work and family
How can personal mastery and learning flourish At work and at home?
Research said 36 percent of the children of executives undergo treatment for

psychiatric or drug abuse each year, vs. 15 percent of children of non-
executives in the same companies.
The author counselled that high-powered managers need to learn how to
boost their children's "self-esteem." But the rest of them, simply accepts the
fact that work inevitably conflicts with family life, and that the organization
has no part to play in improving imbalances between work and family.
Some organisation simply said "If you want to get ahead here, you must be
willing to make sacrifices." Some demand slike spending times on weekend
These all pressures arise primarily from the narrow focus on organizational
goals. And as we know The learning organization cannot support personal
mastery without supporting personal mastery in all aspects of life. We all
have to make a artificial boundary work and family
THE STRUCTURE OF WORK/FAMILY IMBALANCE
He found that "Success to the Successful" it consists of two
reinforcing growth processes, each of which tend to fuel increasing levels of
success he said
reinforcing (amplifying) growth of time

and commitment in one's work: more time leads to greater success,
reinforcing growth of time and commitment at home: more time at home
leads to
more "success"
"Success to the Successful" archetype is
intrinsically unstable. Once it starts to drift one way or another, it will tend to
continue to drift. there are several reasons why it tends to drift toward more
and more time at work. First, there is the matter of income. If time at work
falls
too far, income falls and creates pressure for more time at work. Secondly,
the reinforcing "time
at home" process tends to be especially strong in the negative, "vicious
spiral"
direction.
dominant reinforcing feedback in "Success to the Successful," the

imbalances are not self-correcting. Indeed, they grow worse and worse over
time. This is why work-family issues are so vexing.
THE INDIVIDUAL'S ROLE

is really your vision to have a balance between work and family. Making a
conscious choice will entail setting clear personal goals for time at
home.
In some organizations, managers may pay a price in their career opportunities
if
they take a stand for a vision of balance between work and family
principles of personal mastery and enrollment:
• Identify what is truly important to you
• Make a choice (commitment)
• Be truthful with those around you regarding your choice
• Do not try to manipulate them into agreement or superficial sup port

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Fifth Discipline

This Book is Divided Into 5 Parts

Learning organization-The ability to learn faster than your competitors,"

DISCIPLINES OF THE LEARNING ORGANIZATION\

Component Technology :- when Idea become invention to innovation

The DC-3brought together five critical component technologies

cloud masses, the sky darkens, leaves twist upward, and we

Systems thinking is a conceptual framework, a body of

Personal mastery is essential for learning organisation

It is important for all organisation to support in learning organisation

Arie de Geus, Shell's recently retired Coordinator of Group Planning, says

mental models starts with turning the mirror

If a learning organization were an engineering innovation, such as the

Here author talks about discipline discipline," I do not mean an "enforced

Some people have but some can master it by practice

Practicing a discipline is different from emulating "a model."

It is the discipline that

Ending the war between work and family

Research said 36 percent of the children of executives undergo treatment for

reinforcing (amplifying) growth of time

dominant reinforcing feedback in "Success to the Successful," the

THE INDIVIDUAL'S ROLE

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