Book Byte #42 "The Fifth Discipline" by Peter M. Senge
The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization
📣 Curious Quotes from the Author:
“Personal mastery is the discipline of continually clarifying and deepening our personal vision, of focusing our energies, of developing patience, and of seeing reality objectively.”
“The discipline of personal mastery starts with clarifying the things that really matter to us, of living our lives in the service of our highest aspirations.”
“Systems thinking is a conceptual framework, a body of knowledge and tools that has been developed over the past fifty years, to make the full patterns clearer, and to help us see how to change them effectively.”
📚 Cognition of the Book’s Big Idea:
Companies can identify the structures that are holding them back and produce innovative solutions by establishing "learning organizations" that encourage curiosity, experimentation, and dialogue.
Just Fix Meetings. Have less of them and make them actually valuable
The current default meeting model may be to gather around a conference table. But such sessions might be really dull! To elicit passion and intriguing talks, experiment with different formats. How about arranging your conference room like a café, with plenty of tiny tables? You may then invite folks to brainstorm solutions in multiple one-on-one meetings. After circling around the room, they can present their thoughts to the group.
🛠️Fixing the Tech Industry
Everyone Hates meetings. You don’t learn much from them, a lot of them are just pointless debates and everyone has too many of them on the calendar.
Syncing with the team can easily be done with more synchronous communication/ Thank goodness Slack took off and became a must have in the Corporate world. The amount of meetings saved because of that app would probably be in the billions.
If we try to make our organizations ones of learning and experimenting, we will all gain much more fulfillment in what we do.
🤝 Collaborate with others with this Social Media Prompt:
What can you do in your organization to either get rid of or reduce the amount of meetings you have daily?