Reading: The Fifth Discipline
https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B000SEIFKK/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_U_aV.OEbR6HCBFJ
Theme
Reading the book, the books' japanese name is very descriptive: disciplines the tells an organization how to learn.
By discipline, it means scientific learning.
How to achieve the Goal
Sytematic thinking:
Rather than focus only on imminent or coming events, it is crucial to see how the system works. Like in the "beer game" example.
Multiple player, whole sailer, retailer, factory all react strongly to their own events -- beer orders raise sharply. That result to overmuch backlogs, because the delay of feedback.
Key factors: vicious cycle(positive feed back), balance/negative feedback, delay
Personal Mastery
Only an org full of, have an environment to serve people want to learn and keep learning, can the org itself keep learning. So let's talk about how to form Personal Mastery(learn to master)
Mastery is not a transition like getting 99 from 100 points. It is understanding the system where people stands, knows how the components interact with each other(the hard stuff) and continue learn how the system change and how to perform well among them.
Thus Mastery is a state where people keep growing and learning.
But how to learn?
- Have a direction( large scale of strategy, usually abstract but off topic here)
- Set a vision( a goal you can span effort on)
- The gap between vision and current reality is creative power encourage the learning
The gap is an incentive for growth as well as to lower the goal. Whenever take an action we should be aware or reflect afterwards.
Mental Models
Know the facts, several self-trap modesl:
- Self-unworthiness: nowadays call imposter syndrome(is me really deserve so, i am not - capable of things, not secure)
- Will power oriented. Can solve tough cases but failed to deal with group, org difficulty. Fail in family, friendship.
Advocative vs inquiry.
Advocative: Without a malice, keep finding argument to convince, win the conversation. Taking this strategy, people will selectively skip facts will weaken their point. People will treat assumption of world the how the world it is. And in discussion one winner other loser.
Inquiry: "My assumption is based on these facts." People can explore around
- the idea
- the facts/experience support the idea
- the way facts support the idea.
After discussion every party will have learning. The result is an assumption of the world, any change in the system possibly lead to change of the assumption.
To be continued
