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Real learning gets to the heart of what it means to be human. Through learning we re-create ourselves. Through learning we become able to do something we never were able to do. Throught learning we reperceive the world and our relationship to it. Through learning we extend our capacity to create, to be part of the generative process of life.

This, then, is the basic meaning of a "learning organization" - an organization that is continually expanding its capacity to create its future. For a learning organization, "adaptive learning"("survival learning") must be joined by "generative learning", learning that enhances our capacity to create.

"Learning organizations" are those organizations where people continually 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 to see the whole together.
 
Team Learning is vital because teams, not individuals, are the fundamental learning unit in modern organizations. This is where the rubber meets the road; unless teams can learn, the organinzation cannot learn.

 

Systems Thinking.

A learning organization is a place where people are continually discovering how they create their reality. And how they can change it. As Archimedes said, "Give me a lever long enough . . . and single-handed I can move the world."

So, this book is for the learners, especially those of us interested in the art and practice of collective learning. For managers, this book should help in identifying the specific practices, skills, and disciplines that can make building learning organizations less of an occult art. For parents, this book should help in letting our children be our teachers, as well as we are theirs -- for they have much to teach us about learning as a way of life.

-- ur "The fifth discipline" av Peter M. Senge, kapitel 1