SUSTAINABILITY ; Peter Senge - The dynamics of change and sustainability

Peter Senge has received worldwide acclaim for his work in translating the abstract ideas of systems theory into tools for understanding economic and organisational change. Named in 1999 by the Journal of Business Strategy as one of the 24 people who have had the greatest influence on business strat...

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Published in:New Zealand Management 2005-09, p.46
Main Author: Loren, Gary
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Climate change
Consortia
Environmental management
Intelligence
Manufacturing
Multinational corporations
Organizational change
Organizational learning
Personal profiles
Product development
Senge, Peter
Sustainable development
System theory
Systems analysis
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Summary:Peter Senge has received worldwide acclaim for his work in translating the abstract ideas of systems theory into tools for understanding economic and organisational change. Named in 1999 by the Journal of Business Strategy as one of the 24 people who have had the greatest influence on business strategy over the prior 100 years, Senge is a senior lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is also chair of the Society of Organisational Learning (SoL), a global community of corporations that he helped found in 1997. Senge says very common for people to think that real change only occurs if there's a crisis. That's another way of saying that people have not developed a capacity to change because they see opportunities for real innovation even before somebody has a gun to their head. When an organisation changes only when it has to, that's testimony to the fact that the people in it don't have a picture of the future that's compelling enough to cause them to automatically bring about changes needed. The capacity for aspiration has to do with creating such a compelling picture. It involves the disciplines of personal mastery and building shared vision.
ISSN:1174-5339
1179-3910