In Chapter Four, Peter Senge highlights five distinguishing focus point for learning organizations. The five points are: systems thinking, personal mastery, flexible mental models, a shared vision, and team learning. The two points I am going to focus on are shared vision and team learning.
Shared vision within an organization is where group members act together in order to accomplish a common goal. This helps by bringing cohesiveness within a group because it unites the group towards working together for the one goal. The team must work together in order to accomplish a goal and this leads to group members being on task and helping each other out when it is needed.
Team learning is when communication leads to the group making intelligent decisions. This is necessary in order to avoid group think. Group think is when a group makes a bad decision because no one would voice their opinion and all group members went along with the voice of one person. Intelligent thinking involves collaboration among all group members.
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I really enjoyed reading about the five focus points of organizations. It is very important that organizations have a system they plan to follow and implement when learning about organizations. I also am a firm believe that organizational learning must take place do obtain the competitive advantage necessary in separating your organization from another similar one. Organizations are always changing as are the markets they are in. It is vital to be on top of you r gain in the sense that you are allowing yourself to obtain as much information as possible. This is in my opinion one of the most valuable concepts in the chapter. Great post!
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