彼得・圣吉（PeterM.Senge） 1947年出生于芝加哥，1970年于史丹福大学完成航空及太空工程学士学位后，进入麻省理工史隆管理学院读研究所，旋即被佛睿思特（JayForrester）教授的系统动力学整体动态

搭配的管理新观念所吸引；1978年获得博士学位后，至今十余年来，他和麻省理工学院的一群工作伙伴及企业界人士，孜孜不倦地致力于将系统动力学与组织学习、创造原理、认知科学、群体深度对话与模拟演练游戏融合，发展出一种人类梦寐以求的组织蓝图――在其中，人们得以由工作中得出生命的意义、实现共同愿望的“学习型组织”。

《第五项修炼》这部巨著便是他们研究成果的结晶。该书于1992年荣获世界企业学会（World Business Academy）最高荣誉的开拓者奖（PathfinderAward），以表彰其开拓管理新典范的卓越贡献。美国商业周刊也于同年推崇他为当代最杰出的新管理大师之一。

他的理想，也感召了戴明（EdwardsDeming）、哈佛大学的阿吉瑞斯（ChrisArgyris）、麻省理工学院的雪恩（EdgarSchein）与熊恩（DonaldSchon）等大师级的前辈，以及一群有崇高理想的企业家们，成为他所主持的麻省理工学院“组织学习中心”的工作伙伴，共同为学习型组织的发展而努力，并朝向建立全球性的组织学习中心网络之目标迈进。

Completely Updated and Revised

This revised edition of Peter Senge’s bestselling classic, The Fifth Discipline , is based on fifteen years of experience in putting the book’s ideas into practice. As Senge makes clear, in the long run the only sustainable competitive advantage is your organization’s ability to learn faster than the competition. The leadership stories in the book demonstrate the many ways that the core ideas in The Fifth Discipline , many of which seemed radical when first published in 1990, have become deeply integrated into people’s ways of seeing the world and their managerial practices.

In The Fifth Discipline , Senge describes how companies can rid themselves of the learning “disabilities” that threaten their productivity and success by adopting the strategies of learning organizations—ones in which new and expansive patterns of thinking are nurtured, collective aspiration is set free, and people are continually learning how to create results they truly desire.

The updated and revised Currency edition of this business classic contains over one hundred pages of new material based on interviews with dozens of practitioners at companies like BP, Unilever, Intel, Ford, HP, Saudi Aramco, and organizations like Roca, Oxfam, and The World Bank. It features a new Foreword about the success Peter Senge has achieved with learning organizations since the book’s inception, as well as new chapters on Impetus (getting started), Strategies, Leaders’ New Work, Systems Citizens, and Frontiers for the Future.

Mastering the disciplines Senge outlines in the book will:

• Reignite the spark of genuine learning driven by people focused on what truly matters to them

• Bridge teamwork into macro-creativity

• Free you of confining assumptions and mindsets

• Teach you to see the forest and the trees

• End the struggle between work and personal time