The Fifth Discipline

An MIT Professor's pathbreaking book on building ''learning organizations'' -- corporations that overcome inherent obstacles to learning and develop dynamic ways to pinpoint the threats that face them and to recognize new opportunities. Not only is the learning organization a new source of competitive advantage, it also offers a marvelously empowering approach to work, one which promises that, as Archimedes put it, ''with a lever long enough... single-handed I can move the world.''