Edie Happs,
These are both books that will help in personal and business life. To make
your understanding more complete read Deming. His ideas drove the creation
of more learning organizations than anyone before. I believe the reason
Senge noticed that learning is important in an organization is because of
the success of those who adopted Deming ideas. Deming ideas drive learning
in organizations.
Senge gives new insight into why and how and is a much better read than
Deming's work but his ideas appear to be derived from study of Deming
influenced companies.
Gene
At 09:12 PM 10/12/98 -0700, you wrote:
>Just wanted to share a great class I went to last week. It seems that once
>you realize that there are systems out there you find them everywhere.
>Anyway, wonderful class showing that to have good dialogue you must first
>have trust, meaning, respect and authenticity. This was built around some
>of the ideas of Peter Senge. If you get a chance to go, that is I guess
>unless you are already good at it, I would recommend it. I now have some
>reading to do, this class got me excited, I went out and bought Peter
>Senge's book, The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook and Stephen Covey's book The
>7 habits of highly effective people. Who knows maybe after I read them I
>will make more sense. Wish me luck.
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