Description
Peter Senge's concepts take work. They take time. They take personal commitment. But, I believe, they hold the potential for sustained success."
-Robert E. Allen, Chairman of the Board, ATET
Inside the world's most highly regarded corporations, hundreds of thousands of dedicated employees, inspired by Peter Senge's bestselling classic, The Fifth Discipline, are putting his ideas about learning organizations to ingenious use. In this book you discover how to make his ideas work in your organization as you learn
• why Royal Dutch/Shell now asks its managers, "What do you want on your epitaph?"
• how Ford Motor Company escaped from the measurement trap that threatens all quality initiatives.
• how Intel developed forms of "team learning" to dramatically cut cycle time and change their working relationships.
• how the 18,000 employees of the Australian Taxation Office took charge of their own learning to bust their tired, burdensome bureaucracy.
• why Du Pont uses a board game to understand the emotional element of plant maintenance problems.
• how AT&T used the learning organization concept to begin its transformation from a corporation to a global community.
ISBN:9781857880601
