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Peter Senge is an American economist, pedagogue, writer and university teacher who was born on 1 January 1947 in Stanford. He holds a doctorate and was educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and its Sloan School of Management, where he is also employed. Senge was influenced by David Bohm, and his notable work is The Fifth Discipline.
He has authored 42 works altogether, including Managing Difficult Conversations and Leading in a Time of Change, along with editions published as La Quinta Disciplina, Teoría U and La cinquième discipline.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 42
Top works
- ha-Irgun ha-lomed
- Managing difficult conversations
- La Quinta Disciplina
- Leading in a time of change
- Teoría U
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Key facts
- Born
- 1947 (age 78 – 79), Los Angeles , California
- Alma mater
- MIT Ph.D,1978; M.S.,1972, Stanford University B.S.
- Known for
- The Fifth Discipline , Learning organization
- Fields
- Systems science
- Institutions
- MIT , New England Complex Systems Institute
- Thesis
- The system dynamics national model investment function: a comparison to the neoclassical investment function. (1978)
- Doctoral advisor
- Nathaniel Mass
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Peter
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Stanford
- Occupation
- engineer
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Notable work
- The Fifth Discipline
- Academic degree
- doctorate
- Image
- Peter Senge at Quest to Learn.jpg
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- Commons category
- Peter Senge
- date of birth
- 1947-02-14
- influenced by
- David Bohm
- name in native language
- Peter M. Senge
- short name
- Peter Senge
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Encyclopedic overview
Peter Michael Senge (born 1947) is an American systems scientist who is a senior lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management, co-faculty at the New England Complex Systems Institute, and the founder of the Society for Organizational Learning. He is known as the author of the book The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization (1990, rev. 2006).
Life and career
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