The Practical Leader

MARCH 13, 2024

Goals, objectives, measurements, and career paths move up and down within the narrow, functional “chimney walls.” As engineer and co-founder of the Center for Systems Awareness, Peter Senge, said in The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of The Learning Organization , “Structure influences behavior.

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System Organization Levitt Root Cause Analysis 52

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

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. Edwards Deming. Hank has presented Think Tanks for five U.S. Presidents.

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Drucker Senge Strategic Planning Newsletter 62

First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

Visit us daily to discover issues that matter, share experiences, and plan networking, your career and your life.” Anderson (New York City) for The Glass Hammer, an online community designed for women executives in financial services, law and business. To read the complete article, [.].

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Hammer Article Career Planning 80

Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

I know that that was one of the ways that I came into learning about servant-leadership though the characteristics of servant-leadership, which you extracted from Robert Greenleaf’s writings and, and that’s helped me grow, personally, in my career. Like you said, we’re all servant-leaders in training.

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Greenleaf Servant Leader Leadership Learning-by-Doing 186

Chartered Management Institute

APRIL 19, 2023

It is with a tinge of sadness that we say farewell to “retiring” board members Steven Foong, Jimmy Fam, Datin Dr Wendy Liow , Dr Seng Poh Chew, Mahendra Chandra and Badrie Abdullah and thank them for the sterling contributions that they have made to the Board and the CMI "Cause" within Malaysia and the region.

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Project Webinar Blog Learning-by-Doing 52

Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

I know that that was one of the ways that I came into learning about servant-leadership though the characteristics of servant-leadership, which you extracted from Robert Greenleaf’s writings and, and that’s helped me grow, personally, in my career. Like you said, we’re all servant-leaders in training.

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Greenleaf Servant Leader Leadership Learning-by-Doing 100

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2011

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. Expert Political Judgment , by Philip Tetlock.

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Senge Goleman Emotional Intelligence Politics 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2012

Leadership position no longer matters as much as leadership itself (a distinction Peter Senge wrote about in The Fifth Discipline ). Many people have built their careers and their identities on being experts, and for them this can be terrifying. Being powerful is less about being the boss, and more about sharing or championing ideas.

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Power Span of Control Senge Media 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2016

He was 90 when he wrote the following to Peter Senge (who recounted the correspondence in his influential The Fifth Discipline ): Our prevailing system of management has destroyed our people. Senge, too, wondered why these rare examples of Deming in action aren’t proliferating.

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Deming Management Senge Taylor 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2012

Early on in my career I wondered what made people put their whole hearts and souls into their work. I am a proponent of the central message of Peter Senge's book The Fifth Discipline : "The only sustainable competitive advantage is an organization's ability to learn faster than the competition." Work must have meaning and value.

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Senge Engineering Innovation Learning-by-Doing 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

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. The same thing happens in business.

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Porter Competitive Advantage Senge Network Economy 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

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. In the early days of what was called Web 2.0, the excitement was palpable.

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