The first discipline: personal mastery.
The second principle: improve the mental model.
The third principle: establish a * * * common vision.
The fourth discipline: team learning.
Fifth discipline: systematic thinking.
Integration of five disciplines
The five disciplines put forward by Peter Shengji in the book "The Fifth Discipline" are actually five technologies to improve the thinking mode of individuals and organizations and make organizations move towards learning organizations. As a whole, they are closely related and indispensable. These five disciplines are:
The first discipline: personal mastery.
The cultivation of "self-transcendence" is the process of learning to clarify and deepen one's true desire, concentrate on it, cultivate patience and observe reality objectively. It is the spiritual foundation of a learning organization. Only those who are proficient in "self-transcendence" can continuously realize their deepest desires. Their attitude towards life is just like that of artists towards art, they devote themselves wholeheartedly, persevere and constantly pursue self-transcendence. With this spiritual motivation, individual learning is not a one-off project, but an endless and continuous process. Organizational learning is rooted in the individual's willingness and ability to learn, and will continue to learn.
The second principle: improve the mental model.
The practice of "improving mental model" is to turn the mirror to yourself, discover the secrets in your inner world, and objectively examine them, so as to improve your mental model and be more conducive to your in-depth study. The reason why Shell Oil Company can successfully survive the huge impact of the oil crisis in 1970s and 1980s and grow into a top power in the world is mainly because it has learned how to show managers' mental model and improve it.
The third principle: establish a * * * common vision.
2,500 years ago, Sun Tzu said in Sun Tzu's Art of War that the primary factor of "five things and seven strategies" is "Tao". "Tao makes the people, and the people are with it, and they can die with it and live with it." Therefore, "the one who wants up and down wins." For thousands of years, the highest state that people in an organization have always dreamed of is "the same desire", that is, to establish the same desire, ideal, vision or goal (vision). Only with the common goal that people really want to achieve, will everyone work hard, study hard and pursue Excellence from the heart, so that the organization will flourish. Otherwise, an organization that lacks the same vision will be divided and distracted.
The vision of * * * is often centered on a great leader, or inspired by a * * * crisis. However, many organizations lack the practice of integrating personal vision into * * * vision.
The fourth discipline: team learning.
Team, as a new management method, is all the rage. The members of the team learn from each other and learn from each other's strengths, which not only greatly improves the overall performance of the team, but also makes the team members grow faster. However, as mentioned in the third chapter, team learning has limitations, so that in practice, the IQ of everyone in the team is above 120, while the collective IQ is only 62 (see the fourth quarter of the third chapter).
The cultivation of team learning begins with "dialogue". The so-called "dialogue" means that all members of the team open their hearts and communicate with each other, so as to enter the method or process of truly unified thinking. In addition, "dialogue" can also find out the interactive mode that hinders learning.
Team learning is very important, because in modern organizations, the basic unit of learning is the team, not the individual. Unless the team can learn, the organization cannot learn.
Fifth discipline: systematic thinking.
Both enterprise and human society are a kind of "system" and an organic whole composed of a series of subtle and closely related factors. These factors interact through different modes or channels and "affect the whole body". But this kind of influence is not immediate and one-to-one correspondence, and it often takes several years to fully show it. Being in a small part of the system, people often pay attention to a certain segment (or part) of the system involuntarily, but can't really grasp the whole. The cultivation of systematic thinking lies in expanding people's horizons (continue to write a page on the Internet) and making people "see the trees but not the forest".
Integration of five disciplines
In the above five subjects, the practice of "systematic thinking" is very important. It is the theory and practice of integrating other disciplines into a whole, preventing organizations from listing all disciplines as irrelevant projects or fashions in real practice. Without systematic thinking, it is impossible to explore how disciplines interact with each other. Systematic thinking strengthens every other discipline and constantly reminds us that the whole may be greater than the sum of its parts.
However, "systematic thinking" also needs the cooperation of the other four disciplines to play its potential. "improving mental model" makes people focus on recognizing our cognitive defects in an open way; "Team learning" is a technology to give full play to the group strength and comprehensively enhance the overall strength of the team; "Self-transcendence" is a mirror that constantly reflects the personal influence on the surroundings. Without it, people will fall into a simple structural dilemma of "pressure-response". Therefore, the five disciplines are an organic whole and cannot be isolated or separated.