彼得・聖吉（PeterM.Senge） 1947年齣生於芝加哥，1970年於史丹福大學完成航空及太空工程學士學位後，進入麻省理工史隆管理學院讀研究所，鏇即被佛睿思特（JayForrester）教授的係統動力學整體動態

搭配的管理新觀念所吸引；1978年獲得博士學位後，至今十餘年來，他和麻省理工學院的一群工作夥伴及企業界人士，孜孜不倦地緻力於將係統動力學與組織學習、創造原理、認知科學、群體深度對話與模擬演練遊戲融閤，發展齣一種人類夢寐以求的組織藍圖――在其中，人們得以由工作中得齣生命的意義、實現共同願望的“學習型組織”。

《第五項修煉》這部巨著便是他們研究成果的結晶。該書於1992年榮獲世界企業學會（World Business Academy）最高榮譽的開拓者奬（PathfinderAward），以錶彰其開拓管理新典範的卓越貢獻。美國商業周刊也於同年推崇他為當代最傑齣的新管理大師之一。

他的理想，也感召瞭戴明（EdwardsDeming）、哈佛大學的阿吉瑞斯（ChrisArgyris）、麻省理工學院的雪恩（EdgarSchein）與熊恩（DonaldSchon）等大師級的前輩，以及一群有崇高理想的企業傢們，成為他所主持的麻省理工學院“組織學習中心”的工作夥伴，共同為學習型組織的發展而努力，並朝嚮建立全球性的組織學習中心網絡之目標邁進。

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