The best leaders nurture innovative ideas while simultaneously recognizing the interrelationships and patterns that make up the whole. They not only initiate change, but they also appreciate the forces that seek to preserve the status quo and are skillful at working with those forces. They see quick fixes for what they are and pursue them as needed in ways that also generate energy for longer-term strategies. Dr. Senge will offer insight as to how leaders at all levels of the organization can help people see the interdependencies among business aims and deeper values, and discern ways to interconnect well-intentioned but fragmented change initiatives.
Participants in this program will learn:
- The differences between simple “linear” problems and “systemic” problems
- How systems thinking is central to effective leadership and strategy development
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Peter Senge is the author of the widely acclaimed, best-selling book, The Fifth Discipline, and co-author of The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook Series (the original Fifth Discipline Fieldbook, The Dance of Change, and Schools that Learn). Over a million copies of The Fifth Discipline have been sold worldwide, and it was selected by the Harvard Business Review as one of the seminal management books of the past 75 years. Peter is a senior lecturer at the Sloan School at MIT, and the founding chair of the Society of Organizational Learning.