As your company grows and faces increasingly complex challenges, you may be finding that the original strategy you created is changing. You are also changing and growing to meet these new challenges. Senge (2007) tells us The organizations that will excel in the future will be those that can tap the commitment and capacity to learn of people at all levels within them (para 5). Senge”s 5 key disciplines are 1) systems thinking, 2) achieving personal mastery, 3) shifting mental models, 4) building shared vision, and 5) team learning (2007, para 6). They are key to achieving the goal of creating the learning organization.
For this week”s discussion question, you will be reviewing the readings for this week, viewing to the Extra Extra videos, and using your own organization to research how these disciplines can be integrated into organizational growth and improvement. Your response should contain the following information: