The Dance of Change: The Challenges to Sustaining Momentum in Learning Organizations

by Peter Senge, Art Kleiner, Charlotte Roberts, Richard Ross, George Roth, Bryan Smith

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The Dance of Change, written for managers and executives at every level of an organization, reveals how business leaders can work together to anticipate the challenges that profound change will ultimately force the organization to face. Then, in a down-to-earth and clear format, readers will learn how to build the personal and organizational capabilities needed to meet those challenges. This book identifies universal challenges that organizations ultimately find themselves confronting, show more including "Fear and Anxiety"; the need to diffuse learning across organizational boundaries; the ways in which assumptions built in to corporate measurement systems can handcuff learning initiatives; and the almost unavoidable misunderstandings between "true believers" and nonbelievers in a company. show less

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More or less a must-read for anyone interested in change, learning organisations, or any of the related field. Certainly influential in its day and still today - the concept of double loop learning will be with us a long time... The general idea is that change has to be systemic, that the organisation itself must learn, grow and change, or no change will be real.
> Babelio : https://www.babelio.com/livres/Senge-La-Danse-du-Changement/880400

> Je recommande, cependant sans une connaissance approfondie de la "systémique des organisations" et de la "5ème discipline" du même auteur, il ne sera pas évident d'en tirer la substantifique moelle dans la pratique pour celui qui n'en possède pas l'expertise...
Cet ouvrage mériterait aussi d'être réédité..
Danieljean (Babelio)

> La danse du changement, c'est le jeu croisé des forces qui amplifient le changement et de celles qui le contrarient. Pour mieux la mener, les auteurs du best-seller La Cinquième Discipline vous apprennent à dompter ces forces. Toute organisation a un système immunitaire complexe dont le but est de préserver le statu show more quo. En se fondant sur de nouvelles approches du leadership et sur l'analyse approfondie de nombreux efforts pluriannuels de changement, il est possible d'anticiper, d'éviter et de surmonter les principaux obstacles au changement.
Idées clés, par Business Digest

> N'ayez plus peur des obstacles
Soyons honnêtes : combien de fois n'avons-nous pas entendu la réflexion : "ça ne marche pas votre truc " face à un effort de changement grand ou modeste que nous pensions sincèrement abouti ? Peter Senge et son équipe, tout auréolés qu'ils fussent du succès de La Cinquième Discipline, l'ont également entendu. Mais, en bons tenants de l'approche systémique, ils ont " rétroagi " sur cette phrase pour étudier, à fond, tous les obstacles à la mise en place du changement.
Et c'est passionnant. Cela fait maintenant quinze ans que, par le monde, des organisations apprenantes existent. Leur expérience est utile. Les gains que l'on obtient par des suppressions d'emploi, " reengineering " et dégraissages sont rarement durables alors que les gains d'un processus d'apprentissage en équipe, eux, sont durables, cumulatifs et auto-entretenus. Et les leviers les plus efficaces proviennent du traitement collectif des obstacles à la croissance que ce livre éclaire sans complaisance.
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> La Danse du changement est véritablement une méthode de travail clés-en-main.
Cyril Demaria
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Peter M. Senge is a senior lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management and the founder of the Society for Organizational Learning (SoL).
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Art Kleiner is the director of research and reflection at Dialogos, a consulting firm based in Cambridge, Massachusetts; a faculty member at New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program; and the "Culture & Change" columnist for strategy+business magazine.
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George Roth was born in Germany and has a B .S. in Mechanical Engineering, a M. B. A. in Finance and Marketing, and a Ph .D. in Organizational Studies. Roth worked at Digital Equipment before becoming a staff member at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's 21st Century Initiative. He also lectures at the MIT Sloan School of Management and is show more the director of a joint research project between Ford motor Company and MIT. He is also the co-founder of Reflection Learning Associates, Inc. Roth co-wrote The Dance of Change: Mastering the Twelve Challenges to Change in a Learning Organization. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Original title
The Dance of Change: The Challenges to Sustaining Momentum in Learning Organizations
Original publication date
1999

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Business, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction
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658.406Applied Science & TechnologyManagement & public relationsGeneral managementExecutiveManaging Change
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HD58.82 .D36Social sciencesIndustries. Land use. LaborIndustries. Land use. LaborOrganizational behavior, change and
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