The Learning Disciplines

Essences Principles Practices
Systems Thinking
  • Holism
  • Inter-connectedness
  • Structure influences behavior
  • Policy resistance
  • Leverage
  • Systems Archetypes
  • Simulations
Personal Mastery
  • Being
  • Generativeness
  • Connectedness
  • Vision
  • Creative tension vs. Emotional tension
  • Subconscious
  • Clarifying personal vision
  • “holding” creative tension
    Focusing on the result
    Seeing current reality
  • Making choices
Mental Models
  • Love of truth
  • Openness
  • Espoused theory vs. Theory-in-use
  • Ladder of inference
  • Balance inquiry and advocacy
  • Distinguishing “data” from abstractions based on data
  • Testing assumptions
  • Left-hand column
Building Shared Vision
  • Commonality of purpose
  • Partnership
  • Shared vision as “hologram”
  • Commitment vs. Compliance
  • Visioning process
    Sharing personal visions
    Listening to others
    Allowing freedom of choice
  • Acknowledging current reality
Team Learning
  • Collective intelligence
  • Alignment
  • Dia logos (dialogue)
  • Integrate dialogue and discussion
  • Defensive routines
  • Suspending assumptions
  • Acting as colleagues
  • Surfacing own defensiveness
  • “Practicing”

Source: Based on The Fifth Dicipline, by Peter Senge, pps. 375-376

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