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[Page 1] 17. zá ř í 2004 1 ze 412 [Page 2] 17. zá ř í 2004 2 ze 412 In the long run, the only sustainable source of competitive advantage is your organization's ability to learn faster than its competition. Founder and Director of the Center for Organizational Learning at MIT's Sloan School of Management, which boasts such members as Intel, Ford, Herman Miller, and Harley Davidson, author Peter M. Senge has found a means of creating a "learning organization." In THE FIFTH D I S C I P L I N E , he draws the blueprints for an organization where people expand their capacity to create the results they truly desire, where new and expansive patterns of thinking are nurtured, where collective aspiration is set free, and where people are continually learning how to learn together. THE FIFTH DISCIPLINE fuses these features into a coherent body of theory and practice, making the whole of an organization more effective than the sum of its parts. Company after company, from Intel to AT&T to Procter & Gamble to Coopers and Lybrand, have adopted the disciplines of the learning organization to rid themselves of the learning "disabilities" C O N T I N U E D O N B A C K F L A P [Page 3] 17. zá ř í 2004 3 ze 412 THE FIFTH DISCIPLINE THE ART AND P R A C T I C E O F THE LEARNING ORGANIZATION P e t e r M. S e n g e C U R R E N C Y D O U B I E D A Y New York London Toronto Sydney Auckland [Page 4] 17. zá ř í 2004 4 ze 412 TO DIANE For more information on Currency Doubleday's new ideas on business, please write: Currency Doubleday 1540 Broadway—Eighteenth Floor New York, New York 10036 A C URRENCY P APERBACK PUBLISHED BY DOUBLEDAY a division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc. 1540 Broadway, New York, New York 10036 C URRENCY and D OUBLEDAY are trademarks of Doubleday, a division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc. The Fifth Discipline was originally published in hardcover by Currency Doubleday, a division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc., in 1990. BOOK DESIGN BY RICHARD ORIOLO Permission to reprint Navajo sand painting given by the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Photography by Kay V. Weist. The Library of Congress has cataloged the Currency hardcover edition as follows: Senge, Peter M. The fifth discipline: the art and practice of the learning organization/Peter M. Senge. — 1st ed. p. cm. "A Currency book"—T.p. verso. 1. Organizational effectiveness. 2. Work groups. I. Title. II. Title: Learning organization. HD58.9.S46 1994 658.4-dc20 90-2991 CIP ISBN 0-385-26095-4 Copyright © 1990 by Peter M. Senge Introduction to the Paperback Edition and Some Tips for First-Time Readers copyright © 1994 by Peter M. Senge All Rights Reserved Printed in the United States of America [Page 5] 17.