The Leader's New Work: Building Learning Organizations

This article focuses on the kind of leadership needed to build learning organizations --it describes their new roles, skills and tools. But it also addresses the main concepts behind Senge's conceptualization of the learning organization. For example, it makes a distinction between adaptive learning and generative learning, and it highlights the importance of systems thinking. It also captures the main thrust behind two of the other four disciplines: mental models and shared vision. Team learning is found implicit in the systems perspective. Personal mastery, however, is not addressed.