Practices from the Field

Adapted from 2nd Edition of the The Fifth Discipline:
The Art and Practice of Learning Organization, 2006

 

Short Notes of Practices from the Field:

A.  Core ideas of Learning Organization while radical in the 1990s, that have become deeply ingrained into people’s way of seeing the world and core managerial practices:

Shaping Culture of Reflectiveness and Deep Conversation

  • CHANGE THROUGH CONVERSATION
  • REFLECTIVE OPENNESS
  • GROWING PEOPLE
  • A PURPOSE WORTHY OF COMMITMENT
  • TRANSFORMATIVE RELATIONSHIPS
  • IT STARTS WITH ME

Organizations as Living Systems

  • MACHINE-AGE THINKING VS HOW THE WORK GETS DONE
  • A DIFFERENT APPROACH TO CHANGE

 

B.  Strategies used to “IMPLEMENT LEARNING ORGANIZATIONS”:

Thinking and Acting Strategically

Integrating Learning and Working

  • REFLECTING AND ACTION
  • LEARNING OVER TIME

Starting with where you are with whoever is there

  • THE “IMPOSSIBLES”
  • OF THE PEOPLE BY THE PEOPLE

Becoming Bi-cultural

  • STEALTH TRANSFORMATION
  • WORKING IN THE LANGUAGE OF THE INCUMBENT

Creating Practice Fields

  • THE CAMP AND THE HIERARCHY
  • THE SWIRL AND THE WALL OF FIRE

Connecting with the Core of the Business

  • GETTING STARTED FINDING OUT WHO WE ARE
  • FIELDWORK:  DISCERNING THE SOURCE OF AN ORGANIZATION’S CREATIVITY

Building Learning Communities

  • CONVERSATIONS WITH HEART AND MEANING

Working with “The Other”

  • BUILDING BRIDGES TO TRADITIONAL NON-PARTNERS
  • CONNECTING ACROSS THE SECTORS
  • THE NEXT STAGE OF DIVERSITY

Developing Learning Infrastructures

 

C.  The New Work of the Leader:

Leader As Designer

  • ITERATIVE DESIGN AND LEARNING INFRASTRUCTURES
  • IT INFRASTRUCTURES
  • GUIDING IDEAS
  • THE DESIGNERS’ ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Leader As Teacher

  • SEEING GAPS IN ORGANIZATIONAL CAPACITY
  • THE TEACHER’S DILEMMA
  • BEING A LEARNER FIRST

Leader As Steward

  • THE PARADOXES OF STEWARDSHIP
  • POWER AND THE NATURE OF AMBITION
  • SUSTAINABLE RESULTS
  • BEING A STEWARD OF YOUR VISION
  • HOW CAN SUCH LEADERS BE DEVELOPED

 

D.  The New Work of The Systems Citizen:

Seeing Systems

  • SEEING THE GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE SYSTEMS

Living as if we are the System

  • BUSINESS AS INCUBATOR:  THE SEEDS OF A NEW ENERGY SYSTEM
  • SUPPLY NETWORKS:  THE SYSTEMS SEEING ITSELF
  • SOCIETIES:  TALKING ACROSS BOUNDARIES

Education for the 21st Century

 

E.  Charting New Frontiers:

Discovering and embodying Natures’ Patterns

The Next Generation of Leaders

  • WOMEN LEADING “AS WOMEN”
  • LEADERS FROM THE ECONOMIC PERIPHERY
  • YOUTH LEADERSHIP

 

F.  The Indivisible Whole