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The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization
by Peter M. Senge
from Doubleday Business
Customer Reviews:
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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 
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Systemic thinking: the art of thinking in loops... 
I won this book in a lottery and it was on my bookshelf for several years. I thought it would be one of those repetitive bestsellers about management and leadership, so common in this genre. Belonging to this genre, this book could not escape its being repetitive, but the content far outweighed this minor flaw. It was mainly about systemic thinking or systems theory, which is the 5th discipline. I had read about systemic thinking (in a text book by Adalberto Chiavenato), but very superficially. He only made... more info
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A poorly written and contradictory case for systems thinking. 
Systems thinking is vital for success in business in and life. Anyone in an organization or leadership position can observe the ripple effects across board from a seemingly simple event. Mr Senge does provide some good pointers and lessons in The Fifth Discipline to understand particular systems. Unfortunately, and most tragically, his explanations to their nature are so weak that he does a tremendous disservice to this new science. I would recommend this book only on the condition that one read Appendix 2... more info
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Bunch of unstructured good concepts 
The book indeed brings some refreshing observations on the topic of the learning organization. However, on the very beginning of my reading I had an impression that the Author came up to most of the conclusions in this book through meditation. This aura is covering the complete book. There are a lot of nice ideas and comments but it is very blur for understanding. I would say, that structuring of the chapters themselves was not done in the best possible way. This book would have a nice potential and could... more info
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The Sixth Discipline 
The Fifth Discipline contains some great concepts which are very usable in the day to day management of an organization.
Unfortunately, the author is very long-winded and over-explains concepts repeatedly - taking what should have been less than 50 pages of information and turning it into a 400 page behemoth that is difficult to slog through.
Several people to whom I have recommended this book have suggested that one order the fieldbook instead, as it contains all of the original work's raw... more info
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