Rethinking the Fifth Discipline

The Fifth Discipline is one of the very few approaches to management that has attained a position in the International Hall of Fame. Robert Louis Flood’s book explains and critiques the ideas in straightforward terms. Rethinking the Fifth Discipline makes significant and fundamental improvements to the core discipline of systemic thinking.

It establishes crucial developments in this area within the context of the learning organisation, including creativity and organisational transformation. It is therefore a very important text for strategic planners, organisational change agents, and consultants.

Key features of this work include a review and critique of The Fifth Discipline and systemic thinking, an introduction to the gurus of systemic thinking—Senge, Bertalanffy, Beer, Ackoff, Checkland, and Churchman—a redefinition of management through systemic thinking, a guide to choosing, implementing, and evaluating improvement strategies, and practical animation.

Robert Louis Flood is a renowned and authoritative expert in the field of management. He has implemented systemic management in a wide range of organisations across many continents and has lectured by invitation in twenty-five countries, including Japan and the USA. Professor Flood has featured on many radio and TV programmes. His book Beyond TQM (Wiley) was nominated for the IMC Management Book of the Year 1993.

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