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Why Businesses Fail | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Peter Senge addressed this dilemma in his book The Fifth Discipline and accurately discerned that sound leadership decisions are based on systemic analysis before making a decision. Many of the poor decisions I've made and have witnessed other leaders make stemmed from 'attacking' phantom problems.

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StrategyDriven Welcomes Hank Moore | StrategyDriven

Strategy Driven

Hank is the highest level of business overview expert and is in that rarified circle of experts such as Peter Drucker, Tom Peters, Steven Covey, Peter Senge and W. He has worked with all major industries over a 40-year career. These qualities make it invaluable for the corporate and small business markets. Edwards Deming.

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Five Must-Reads for Tackling Complex Problems

Harvard Business Review

It includes stock markets, economic cycles, wars, company fortunes, and career paths. The Fifth Discipline , by Peter Senge. Although Senge's book was first published over 20 years ago, it remains one of the best explanations of this approach to analyzing problems. Systems thinking" is the key.

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Fixing the Malaise in U.S. High Tech

Harvard Business Review

Early on in my career I wondered what made people put their whole hearts and souls into their work. It turned out that we had won considerable market share during this period because all our projects stayed on track. Senge's concept of learning is not just sitting in a classroom. I authorized them to continue their work.

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Are You Building Facebook's Empire, Or Your Own?

Harvard Business Review

Social tools were enabling everyday people to break through traditional barriers to connect, build their audiences and careers and get more creative than ever before. One of my favorite books of all-time has been The Fifth Discipline (1990) by Peter Senge. Word of mouth is still the best form of marketing.

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Why the Problem with Learning Is Unlearning

Harvard Business Review

Ever since the publication of Peter Senge’s The Fifth Discipline , 25 years ago, companies have sought to become “learning organizations” that continually transform themselves. Many of the paradigms we learned in school and built our careers on are either incomplete or ineffective. Unlearning is not about forgetting.

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Are These Systems Serving or Subverting Organization Results?

The Practical Leader

Harvard Business School Professor Ted Levitt, a leading research and author in management, marketing, and former editor of Harvard Business Review, said “Early decline and certain death are the fate of companies whose policies are geared totally and obsessively to their own convenience at the total expense of the customer.”

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