What are the character traits of a learning organization?
This was selected as Best Answer This is a great question as I have just read The Fifth Discipline by Peter Senge. In The Fifth Discipline, Senge lays out plans for cultivating a “learning organization,” one that constitutes an alternative to traditional hierarchical organizations. Senge describes “learning organizations” as “organizations where people continually expand their capacity to create the results they truly desire, where new and expansive patterns of thinking are nurtured, where collective aspiration is set free, and where people are continually learning how to learn together”. The book details five “disciplines” that serve as guides for creating learning organizations. These disciplines are as follows: • Personal mastery: Organizations need to continually clarify their personal vision while striving to see reality objectively. Good leaders learn to live and work with the tension created by the distance between their goals and aspirations and the current reality. • Mental mo
