Discussions week 5

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Week Five

Two Disciplines, Honda's Innovation, and GM's NUMMI Plant

Required Reading:

· Senge, Peter,  The Fifth Discipline

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· Chapter 5: A Shift of Mind

· Chapter 8: Personal Mastery

· Chapter 9: Mental Models

· https://b-ok.cc/book/5460482/0a38c4

· Rothfeder, Jeffrey. 2014.  Driving Honda: Inside the World's Most Innovative Car Company

· Chapter 1: The Honda Difference

· Chapter 7: Honda's Innovation Machine

· NPR Audio - "NUMMI."  This American Life (Warning - 60 minutes) 

· http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/403/nummi

1. Discuss whether employees, both managers and line workers, at GM’s Fremont, CA auto plant practiced personal mastery. What mental models were the managers and line workers stuck in? Were any of these mental models outdated?

2. Describe what the S-curve/sigmoid curve is about. Charles Handy argued that popular products ride the S-curve. Do complex organizations (like GM) “ride the S-curve?” What could GM have done from an organizational standpoint to look more like the S-curve on page 194?