Peter Senge's The Fifth Discipline was called "one of the five greatest business management masterpieces of all time" by the Financial Times. In the book, he put forward the management concept of "learning organization" and how to build a learning organization with super learning ability through five major disciplines, emphasizing that engaging in one discipline means becoming a lifelong learner. Among these five disciplines, the most important one is systematic thinking, which is the first one.

About five disciplines:

First, self-transcendence. Personally, self-transcendence refers to the desire to constantly surpass one's ability, as well as the enthusiasm and motivation to study hard. The transformation from complacency to self-transcendence is the first ability we should cultivate.

Second, the mental model. Everyone has some fixed ideas, views and ways of thinking about the world. The reason why people take the same behavior every time is because our mental model has not changed. Therefore, if you want to improve your behavior and improve your ability, what you really need to change is your mental model, so that you can understand and know the world in a more reasonable way.

Third, * * * has a common vision. From the team's point of view, * * * common vision means that everyone in the organization has a * * * common goal and can work together. Therefore, the first step for an organization to establish the enthusiasm for learning is to let everyone have a common understanding and a common goal. This is a key part of a team's long-term development.

Fourth, team learning. It means that everyone in the team can show their mental models, communicate with each other and inspire each other, so that the team can learn and progress quickly.

Fifth, think systematically. This is a way of thinking based on the whole and the overall situation. It breaks the traditional layout, simple and single causal thinking mode. Think that the world is a system, which is interrelated and influential.

Systematic thinking is the cultivation of observing the whole, which can help us deeply understand new ways of looking inward and outward. The key to an organization's long-term competitiveness lies in its faster and better learning ability and training methods than its competitors. Systematic thinking also needs to develop common vision, mental model, team learning and self-transcendence in order to exert its potential.

The direction and order of our habitual thinking are constantly changing, but systematic thinking can enhance our cognition of the whole, see clearly the relationship between the part and the whole, and find the key influence of the whole system. From reality to the future, from reality to the future, practice the "unity of knowing and doing" from individual learning to organizational learning.