Spring Q 606

1. personal mastery
2. mental models
3. shared vision
4. team learning
5. systems thinking

• Systems Thinking, the Fifth Discipline, is a global approach to change
• Approach change by seeing the whole picture
• Creative tension creates change
• Shared vision anchored in set of governing ideas.
• "Team Learning": discusses difference between discussion and dialogue

• Three leadership images that might promote learning organizations:

1. Leader as designer
2. Leader as steward
3. Leader as teacher (fosters learning)

• Three Elements of Principles:

1. practices
2. principles
3. essences

"His book points the way to developing a framework that combines the practices, principles, and essences of each of his disciplines into a model that would synthesize theory, research, and practice and could also be applied in further research into all five disciplines." (Shields)

• "The leader as a designer of the restructuring process of educational change is crucial."

"Second-order change requires educators to embrace new ways of thinking as well as to find ways to integrate the individual’s strengths, ideas, and vision (personal mastery) with those of the organization as a whole."(Shields)

Judy

# posted by J. Minion @ 9:35 PM