Includes bibliographical references and index.

PART I: HOW OUR ACTIONS CREATE OUR REALITY AND HOW WE CAN CHANGE IT: "Give me a lever long enough ... and single-handed I can move the world" -- Does your organization have a learning disability? -- Prisoners of the system, or prisoners of our own thinking? -- PART II: THE FIFTH DISCIPLINE: THE CORNERSTONE OF THE LEARNING ORGANIZATION: The law of the fifth discipline -- A shift of mind -- Nature's templates: identifying the patterns that control events -- Self-limiting or self-sustaining growth -- PART III: THE CORE DISCIPLINES: BUILDING THE LEARNING ORGANIZATION: Personal mastery -- Mental models -- Shared vision -- Team learning == PART IV: REFLECTIONS FROM PRACTICE: Foundations -- Impetus -- Strategies -- The leader's new work -- Systems citizens -- Frontiers -- PART V: CODA: The invisible whole -- Appendix 1: The Learning disciplines -- Appendix 2: Systems archetypes -- Appendix 3: The U process.