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Peter SENGE

2007 ranking: 47

Peter SENGE

Peter Senge (born 1947) is a Senior Lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Chairperson of the Society for Organizational Learning (SoL) . He is also a founding partner of the training and consulting company, Innovation Associates, now part of Arthur D. Little. Senge graduated in engineering from Stanford before doing a PhD on social systems modeling at MIT.

Senge argues that learning is the best form of competitive advantage and popularized the term "learning organization" thanks to his 1990 bestseller The Fifth Discipline. His subsequent co-authored books include The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies and Tools for Building a Learning Organization (1994), Schools That Learn (2000) and The Dance of Change (1999).

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