The Fifth Discipline

All things 'The Fifth Discipline'.

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"A mistake is an event, the full benefit of which has not yet been turned to your advantage"
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"As individuals practice the discipline of Personal Mastery, several changes gradually take place within them. Many of these are quite subtle and often go unnoticed"

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"Don't over-romanticize people, so you don't feel the great psychological stress when people let you down"
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#Resistance

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"What do we want?" is different from "What do we want to avoid?"
Many organisations truly pull together only when their survival is threatened.
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Don't push growth; remove the factors limiting growth.

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"Only mediocre people are always at their best" - Somerset Maugham

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Nobody wants to be the messenger with bad news. The easiest path is to just pretend there is no bad news, or better yet, declare victory.

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The purpose of a dialogue is to go beyond any one individual's understanding.
"We are not trying to win in a dialogue. We all win if we are doing it right".

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Creative strategies seldom emerge from the annual planning rituals.

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If managers "believe" their world views are facts rather than sets of assumptions, they will not be open to challenging those world views.
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People with high levels of Personal Mastery cannot afford to choose between reason and intuition, any more than they would choose to walk on one leg or see with one eye.
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Sometimes the easy or familiar solution is not only ineffective but it is addictive and dangerous. The cure can be worse than the disease. #FifthDiscipline

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Today's problems come from yesterday's "solutions".

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Our minds move at lightning speed. Ironically, this often slows our #learning because we immediately #leap to #generalizations so quickly that we never think to test them.

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Hundreds of starfish get stranded on a beach.
A old man picks up a starfish and throws it back into the sea. A passerby yells at the old man, "What difference will it make? It's just one starfish.
And the old man said, "It made a difference for that starfish"

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In #Organisations, #goals erode because of low tolerance for #emotional #tension.

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No #Culture is static, It is continually reinforced by how we live with one another #daytoday.

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The inertia of deeply entrenched #mentalmodels can overwhelm even the best systemic insights.

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We need to let go of the #notion that #cause and #effect are close in #time and #space.

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The root of our #difficulties is neither #recalcitrant #problems nor evil adversaries - but #ourselves