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A 3 page review of Peter Senge's book on seeing and perceiving. Senge's The Fifth Discipline took several years to sink in, and to date it appears that people find Presence equally as daunting. Likely the book's discourse on seeing and perceiving will prove to be as valuable to business as The Fifth Discipline has been to organizational learning. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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In their introduction to Presence: Exploring Profound Change in People, Organizations, and Society, Senge, Scharmer, Jaworski and Flowers (2005) offer the illustration of a human hand
as an example of unrecognized change and the dangers of not thinking on a level of "wholes" but only in "parts." The authors relate the story of a favorite
illustration of inventor Buckminster Fuller who would hold up his hand to ask his audience to identify it, after which he explained that "the cells that made up that hand
were continually dying and regenerating themselves. What seems tangible is continually changing: in fact, a hand is completely re-created within a year or so" (Senge, et al., 2005; p. 6).
The authors point is that when we look at any living system - whether biological, physical or organizational - "as a static thing, we are mistaken" (Senge, et al.,
2005; p. 6). Central Theme The central theme of the book is seeing - looking, yes, but with the realization that we can
look at anything and everything without truly seeing all that the picture holds. The authors tell the story of a Detroit automaker executive touring the Japanese factory of one
of the group of Detroits new competition. The purpose of the many trips to Japan was to "find out why the Japanese automakers were outperforming their U.S. counterparts" (Senge,
et al., 2005; p. 28). One was truly disgusted with the most recent trip told Peter Senge that the Japanese had staged the tour, that it wasnt a real
factory. There "were no inventories. Ive seen plenty of assembly facilities in my life, and these were not real plants. Theyd been staged for our tour" (Senge,
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