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The dance of change : the challenges of sustaining momentum in learning organizations / Peter Senge... [et al.].

Contributor(s): Senge, Peter M.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London : Nicholas Brealey, 1999Description: ix, 596 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.ISBN: 1857882431; 9781857882438.Subject(s): Organizational learning | Organizational change | Organizational effectiveness | Business and Management | Organizational theory & behaviourDDC classification: 658.4 SEN Summary: From the author of the influential The Fifth Discipline, this book offers exercises, tools and techniques for sustaining organisational learning over the long term.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Since Peter Senge published The Fifth Discipline , he and his associates have frequently been asked by the business community: "How do we go beyond the first steps of corporate change? How do we sustain momentum?" They know that companies and organizations cannot thrive today without learning to adapt their attitudes and practices. But companies that establish change initiatives discover, after initial success, that even the most promising efforts to transform or revitalize organizations - despite interest, resources, and compelling business results - can fail to sustain themselves over time. That's because organizations have complex, well-developed immune systems, aimed at preserving the status quo.

Now, drawing upon new theories about leadership and the long-term success of change initiatives, and based upon twenty-five years of experience building learning organizations, the authors of The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook show how to accelerate success and avoid the obstacles that can stall momentum. The Dance of Change , written for managers and executives at every level of an organization, reveals how business leaders can work together to anticipate the challenges that profound change will ultimately force the organization to face. Then, in a down-to-earth and compellingly clear format, readers will learn how to build the personal and organizational capabilities needed to meet those challenges.

Filled with individual and team exercises, in-depth accounts of sustaining learning initiatives by managers and leaders in the field, and well-tested practical advice, The Dance of Change provides an insider's perspective on implementing learning and change initiatives at such corporations as British Petroleum, Chrysler, Dupont, Ford, General Electric, Harley-Davidson, Hewlett-Packard, Mitsubishi Electric, Royal DutchShell, Shell Oil Company, Toyota, the United States Army, and Xerox. It offers crucial advice for line-level managers, executive leaders, internal networkers, educators, and others who are struggling to put change initiatives into practice.

"A fifth discipline resource."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

From the author of the influential The Fifth Discipline, this book offers exercises, tools and techniques for sustaining organisational learning over the long term.

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Peter Senge is director of the Center for Organizational Learning at MIT's Sloan School of Management, and an associate at consulting and training firm Innovation Associates and at the Learning Circle, an organization founded to develop the worldwide community of learning organization practitioners.