The Fifth Discipline

Building Learning Organizations

Five Disciplines

Coherent Way to Delivering Results

Personal Mastery

Continually clarify what is important to you and how to see reality more clearly.

Mental Models

Reveal implicit rules of how you make sense of the world and take actions.

Shared Vision

Bound people together by a common aspiration.

Team Learning

Align and develop the capacity of your team to create results.

Systems Thinking

Become aware of how different elements are interconnected.

About The Idea

The idea for this website was really simple – create a space for people who begin and/or continue their journey with “The Fifth Discipline”. This book (and its follow-ups) describes five fields that seem essential to design an organization that could adapt to internal and external changes. I strongly believe that by practicing all five disciplines we can create better places to work and acheive better results.

Approaches Coherent with V Discipline

“Build projects around motivated individuals. Give them the environment and support they need, and trust them to get the job done.”
Manifesto for Agile Software Development
“When bosses are too invested in everyone getting along they also fail to encourage the people on their team to criticize one another other for fear of sowing discord. They create the kind of work environment where being "nice" is prioritized at the expense of critiquing and therefore improving actual performance.”
Kim Malone Scott, Radical Candor: Be a Kickass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity
“The results of a system must be managed by paying attention to the entire system. When we optimize sub-components of the system we don’t necessarily optimize the overall system.”
W. Edwards Deming, Management Today Does Not Know What Its Job Is