Peter Senge

Peter Senge is an American systems scientist and a senior lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management, born in 1947 in Stanford, California. He trained first in aerospace engineering at Stanford University, then earned a master's degree in social systems modeling and a doctorate in management at MIT. He is best known as the author of The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization, first published in 1990, which presents the learning organization as one where people continually expand their capacity to create the results they truly desire. He founded the Society for Organizational Learning, which helps large corporations exchange ideas, and co-founded the Academy for Systems Change. Harvard Business Review named his book among the seminal management books of the previous 75 years.