A Fifth Discipline Resource: The Dance of Change

The Challenges of Sustaining Momentum in Learning Organizations

Since Peter Senge published his groundbreaking book 'The Fifth Discipline', he and his associates have frequently been asked by the business community "How do we go beyond the first steps of corporate change? How do we sustain momentum?"

Now, drawing upon new theories about leadership and the long-term success of change initiatives, and based upon twenty-five years of experience building learning organisations, the authors show how to accelerate successes and avoid the obstacles that can stall momentum. Written for managers and executives at every level of an organisation it reveals how business leaders can work together to anticipate the challenges that profound change will ultimately force them to face. Then, in a down-to-earth and compellingly clear format, readers will learn how to build the personal and organisational capabilities needed to meet those challenges.

This book identifies universal challenges that organizations ultimately find themselves confronting, the need to diffuse learning across organisational boundaries, the ways in which assumptions built into corporate measurements systems can handcuff learning initiatives and the almost unavoidable misunderstandings between "true believers" and nonbelievers in a company.

Filled with individual and team exercises, in-depth accounts and sustaining learning initiatives, it offers crucial advice for all who are struggling to put change initiatives into practice.