--- product_id: 3671027 title: "The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization" price: "4772 som" currency: KGS in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.kg/products/3671027-the-fifth-discipline-the-art-and-practice-of-the-learning store_origin: KG region: Kyrgyzstan --- # The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization **Price:** 4772 som **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization - **How much does it cost?** 4772 som with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.kg](https://www.desertcart.kg/products/3671027-the-fifth-discipline-the-art-and-practice-of-the-learning) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description MORE THAN ONE MILLION COPIES IN PRINT • “One of the seminal management books of the past seventy-five years.”— Harvard Business Review This revised edition of the bestselling classic is based on fifteen years of experience in putting Peter Senge’s ideas into practice. As Senge makes clear, in the long run the only sustainable competitive advantage is your organization’s ability to learn faster than the competition. The leadership stories demonstrate the many ways that the core ideas of the Fifth Discipline, many of which seemed radical when first published, have become deeply integrated into people’s ways of seeing the world and their managerial practices. Senge describes how companies can rid themselves of the learning blocks that threaten their productivity and success by adopting the strategies of learning organizations, in which new and expansive patterns of thinking are nurtured, collective aspiration is set free, and people are continually learning how to create the results they truly desire. Mastering the disciplines Senge outlines in the book will: • Reignite the spark of genuine learning driven by people focused on what truly matters to them • Bridge teamwork into macrocreativity • Free you of confining assumptions and mindsets • Teach you to see the forest and the trees • End the struggle between work and personal time This updated edition contains more than one hundred pages of new material based on interviews with dozens of practitioners at companies such as BP, Unilever, Intel, Ford, HP, and Saudi Aramco and organizations such as Roca, Oxfam, and The World Bank. Review: Great Book - "The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization" by Peter M. Senge was a book assigned to me for my Quality Control class and I have to say that this book has great concepts of improving your business through learning organization. Within the learning organization Senge points out five disciplines; Personal Mastery, Mental Models, Shared Vision, Team Learning and Systems Thinking being the fifth discipline. Peter M Senge believes that a learning organization must achieve all five disciplines in order to better improve the organization. Senge also mentions five organizational disabilities that prevent a company from being successful. Peter Senge does a great job in deeply explaining all five disciplines. One thing I really like about this book is how Senge offers real life scenario to help him get his point across. One scenario that really got my interest was the Beer Game scenario. It's a pretty long scenario but well worth it to understand Senge's point that systems are interdependent of each. Meaning that systems will similarly think in qualitative terms. A key factor I got from this scenario is that we must break the way that systems independently think of their own decisions. The organization must think as a whole and must keep in mind how their decisions affect the rest of the system. Overall this book is a little complicated to understand at moments but contains very interesting concepts of improving an organization. In my opinion, this book is written for individuals in a managerial type position that have the power in greatly influencing their business decisions. I recommend this book to any individual in any industry that wants to better their organization. Review: Must for any manager - In this book Peter Senge discuss how to become a learning organization. Learning organizations are organizations that facilitate individual learning and continuous improvement. To illustrate his many concepts, Senge provides simple to understand examples and real world situations. By reading this book you can better adapt to change, become more innovative, and remain competitive. This book is mainly geared toward managers but its idea can be applied to anyone at any level. The main ideas that this book goes over are: 1.Personal Mastery is the continuous motivation to personal growth and learning. Organizations need individual growth and learning to grow and learn. 2.Share Vision is the building of deep common caring for the vision. Organizations not only need a common vision but one that individuals deeply care about and can unite behind. 3.Mental Models is challenging deeply held internal assumptions. Organizations need to constantly surface, challenge, and improve old familiar assumptions. 4.Team Learning is the sharing of individual learning. Organizations need this to allow its employees to grow quicker. 5.System Thinking is the viewing of the world as a complex system where everything is connected to each other. Organizations need to view themselves as part of a system and how their actions affect the system. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #10,121 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #12 in Business & Organizational Learning #26 in Communication Skills #72 in Business Management (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.6 out of 5 stars 2,568 Reviews | ## Images ![The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61ZKbQvmGLL.jpg) ## Available Options This product comes in different **Media Language, Media Format** options. ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great Book *by C***S on June 2, 2012* "The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization" by Peter M. Senge was a book assigned to me for my Quality Control class and I have to say that this book has great concepts of improving your business through learning organization. Within the learning organization Senge points out five disciplines; Personal Mastery, Mental Models, Shared Vision, Team Learning and Systems Thinking being the fifth discipline. Peter M Senge believes that a learning organization must achieve all five disciplines in order to better improve the organization. Senge also mentions five organizational disabilities that prevent a company from being successful. Peter Senge does a great job in deeply explaining all five disciplines. One thing I really like about this book is how Senge offers real life scenario to help him get his point across. One scenario that really got my interest was the Beer Game scenario. It's a pretty long scenario but well worth it to understand Senge's point that systems are interdependent of each. Meaning that systems will similarly think in qualitative terms. A key factor I got from this scenario is that we must break the way that systems independently think of their own decisions. The organization must think as a whole and must keep in mind how their decisions affect the rest of the system. Overall this book is a little complicated to understand at moments but contains very interesting concepts of improving an organization. In my opinion, this book is written for individuals in a managerial type position that have the power in greatly influencing their business decisions. I recommend this book to any individual in any industry that wants to better their organization. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Must for any manager *by T***F on June 7, 2009* In this book Peter Senge discuss how to become a learning organization. Learning organizations are organizations that facilitate individual learning and continuous improvement. To illustrate his many concepts, Senge provides simple to understand examples and real world situations. By reading this book you can better adapt to change, become more innovative, and remain competitive. This book is mainly geared toward managers but its idea can be applied to anyone at any level. The main ideas that this book goes over are: 1.Personal Mastery is the continuous motivation to personal growth and learning. Organizations need individual growth and learning to grow and learn. 2.Share Vision is the building of deep common caring for the vision. Organizations not only need a common vision but one that individuals deeply care about and can unite behind. 3.Mental Models is challenging deeply held internal assumptions. Organizations need to constantly surface, challenge, and improve old familiar assumptions. 4.Team Learning is the sharing of individual learning. Organizations need this to allow its employees to grow quicker. 5.System Thinking is the viewing of the world as a complex system where everything is connected to each other. Organizations need to view themselves as part of a system and how their actions affect the system. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ My Notes from The Fifth Discipline *by F***J on February 19, 2014* The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of the Learning Organization written by Peter Senge in 1990 has some great viewpoints for upper and middle managers to learn from. The book may seem to apply its learning philosophy for large size companies but is valid for a company of any size. Senge’s views of the learning organization are broken down into five disciplines; they are: personal mastery, mental models, team learning, building shared vision, and systems thinking. In chapter 2, Senge explains the seven deficiencies of a learning organization which he calls the “seven learning disabilities”. I don’t know why but the “parable of the boiling frog” stands out in my mind the most; that of letting threats gradually sneak up on or your system. Or being complacency or too comfortable where you can’t react in time because it’s too late. Senge does a good job of giving the reader a visual with his illustrations and examples. On page 89 he mentions of how the temperature controls adjustments can overshoot the target and exceed the desired limits. A simple time delay between adjustments can help stabilize the process from overshooting the opposite limits. I’ve seen this on systems that monitor the relative humidity when storms blow in and change the dew point. Also, when my spouse comes home from work and adjusts the thermostat as low as it can go thinking the A/C unit will cool down faster. By the time I get home the house is freezing…. Senge’s point is that sometimes delays to a process are sometimes necessary while other delays, like in the “beer game” orders, may be a burden and create an issue. The beer game was in chapter 3 is a great example of how material flows from the brewery, through the distributor, and then to the retailer for sale to the consumers. The process is a little redundant and maybe a little long winded but is important for the readers or managers to understand how easily things can go wrong. My initial thought was the book was written in 1990 and now that we have the internet with B2B software, it could resolve the communication breakdown between the three parties and have material flow closer to JIT process. This would help the reaction time as sales increase or decrease. Senge references the beer game throughout his book and mentions the game was first developed in the 1960’s as a demonstration at MIT’s Sloan School of Management. The “7 Disabilities” of an organization relate to the “11 Laws of an Organization” in chapter 4. The seven disabilities can be conquered by the disciplines of the eleven laws of an organization. What I thought reading through the beer game was somewhat difficult but was nothing compared to the agonizing chapters of 6 and 7. Chapter 8 was refreshing that deals with “Personal Mastery”. I guess the part I enjoyed was the “Personal Vision” where I can evaluate my own visions and not just my goals. It clarifies the vision and what it takes to achieve being a “personal mastery”. It mentions to fill in the gap between my vision and reality; the “gap” is the energy of making my vision a reality. One thing Senge mentions is that “organizations learn only through individuals who learn. Individual learning does not guarantee organizational learning. But without it no organizational learning occurs”. Leadership, vision, and disciplines all play a part in creating a learning organization. These are just some of my notes that I made for myself and almost gave the book only three stars for the long drawn out sections. Other than that it is a good book and one to highlight and tag notes inside and keep on your shelf. That is just my take on it - hope my notes help. ## Frequently Bought Together - The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization - Thinking in Systems: International Bestseller - The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies and Tools for Building a Learning Organization --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.kg/products/3671027-the-fifth-discipline-the-art-and-practice-of-the-learning](https://www.desertcart.kg/products/3671027-the-fifth-discipline-the-art-and-practice-of-the-learning) --- *Product available on Desertcart Kyrgyzstan* *Store origin: KG* *Last updated: 2026-10-12*