

In 1997, Harvard Business Review identified The Fifth Discipline as one of the seminal management books of the previous 75 years. This conceptualizes organizations as dynamic systems (as defined in Systemics), in states of continuous adaptation and improvement. Senge emerged in the 1990s as a major figure in organizational development with the book The Fifth Discipline, in which he developed the notion of a learning organization. Hopkins and has followed closely the works of Michael Peters and Robert Fritz and based his books on pioneering work with the five disciplines at Ford, Chrysler, Shell, AT&T Corporation, Hanover Insurance, and Harley-Davidson, since the 1970s. Work Īn engineer by training, Peter was a protégé of John H. He recommends meditation or similar forms of contemplative practice. He has had a regular meditation practice since 1996 and began meditating with a trip to Tassajara, a Zen Buddhist monastery, before attending Stanford. The focus is on awareness-based systems thinking tools, methods and approaches. This non-profit organization works with leaders to grow their ability to lead in complex social systems that foster biological, social and economic well-being.

He is co-Founder, and sits on the Board of Directors, of the Academy for Systems Change. It replaced the previous organization known as the Center for Organizational Learning at MIT. This organization helps with the communication of ideas between large corporations. He is the founding chair of the Society for Organizational Learning (SoL). in social systems modeling from MIT in 1972, as well as a PhD in Management from the MIT Sloan School of Management in 1978. While at Stanford, Senge also studied philosophy. in Aerospace engineering from Stanford University. Peter Senge was born in Stanford, California.
