TY - JOUR
AU - Lebby, Andrew M.
AB - 198 Reviews are part of the population of American taxpayers that finance business failures. REVIEWED BY SAM J. YARGER UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN, MILWAUKEE The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization, by Peter M. Senge. (1990). New York: Doubleday Currency. 424 pp., $19.95 cloth. This is not so much a book review as an initial test of a books validity at the application level-not to entertain, to provoke, to stimulate, or to teach, but to cause learning in the pursuit of change. For this is a book that claims to be about learning-not about teaching, or education, or educa- tional systems as such, but about the creation of both skills and the envi- ronment in which the skills are learned and used such that long-term results are achieved. If you have read the two preceding reviews and if the reviewers have influenced you sufficiently, you are now possibly in a state somewhere between confusion and outrage. Educators attack business people who attack academicians who attack educators. Pots condemn kettles who con- demn pressure cookers. Things seem to be broken both in business and education, and fixes seem to be fads or at least ineffective. Clearly, the 
TI - The fifth discipline: The art and practice of the learning organization, by Peter M. Senge. (1990). New York: Doubleday Currency. 424 pp., $19.95 cloth
JF - Human Resource Development Quarterly
DO - 10.1002/hrdq.3920020215
DA - 1991-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/the-fifth-discipline-the-art-and-practice-of-the-learning-organization-9P6dmXSVp2
SP - 198
EP - 201
VL - 2
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -