Peter M. Senge

Peter M. Senge

Peter Michael Senge (* 1947 in Stanford ) is Senior Lecturer of Behavioral and Policy Sciences at MIT, he was director of the Center for Organizational Learning at the MIT Sloan School of Management in Cambridge (Massachusetts) , which was founded in 1991, and is chairman of the Society for Organizational Learning (SoL). His research area is organizational development and systems research. He is considered to be one of the most influential management thought leaders.

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Senge is considered a thought leader in the learning organization . In particular, his work The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization aims to provide managers and entrepreneurs with answers to the question of why "the same mistakes" are made over and over again. To this end, he offers theoretically sound, conclusive approaches to solving this vicious circle. The work, now a management classic (“One of the groundbreaking management books of the last 75 years”, Harvard Business Review), has been translated into 20 languages ​​and printed over a million times worldwide.

Publications

• The dance of change: the 10 challenges of profound changes in organizations. Signum-Verlag, Vienna 2000. ISBN 3-85436-300-1 .
• The fifth discipline: the art and practice of the learning organization. 11th completely revised and updated edition. Klett-Cotta Verlag , Stuttgart 2011. ISBN 3-608-91379-3 .
• The fieldbook for the fifth discipline. 5th edition. Klett-Cotta Verlag , Stuttgart 2004. ISBN 3-608-91310-6 .
• Foreword to meta-management , Fred Kofman. J. Kamphausen Verlag, Bielefeld 2005. ISBN 3-89901-056-6 .
• Presence: Human Purpose and the Field of the Future . Nicholas Brealey Publ., 2005. ISBN 1-85788-355-1 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Peter M. Senge in the catalog of the German National Library
• Peter Senge and the Learning Organization at the Infed Website (Engl.)