Self Limiting Learning Disabilities

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Peter Senge argues that it is no accident that most organizations are ‘poor learners’. The way organizations are designed and structured, the ways jobs are defined, and the way we have been taught to behave and think in organizations create fundamental learning disabilities. The disabilities persist in spite of the best efforts of intelligent and committed people. The learning that does take place occurs in spite of the undetected disabilities that pervade most organizations to some degree.
1. “I am my position”
2. “The enemy is out there”
3. “The illusion of taking charge”
4. “The fixation on events”
5. “The parable of the boiled frog”
6. “The delusion of learning from experience”
7. “The myth of the management team”

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