Week 1 Discussion 2

As you review Peter Senge’s The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of the Learning Organization, consider his premise that “today’s problems come from yesterday’s solutions” (2006, p. 57). Think back through your own work history to identify a situation that illustrates poor systems thinking. Consider whether managers were applying yesterday’s solutions to a current problem.

Post the following:

• A brief description of an organization with which you are familiar and the example of poor systems thinking you observe
• An explanation of the core issues that you think led to this systems failure, including whether managers were using “yesterday’s thinking”
• An explanation of whether there might have been a different or better outcome if managers had understood the principle of the “parts of the whole fit together” (Justify your response.)

2-3 paragraphs in APA format. Due in 12 hours