| 2004
Graduate School Business Lecture: "Mobilizing Organizations
for Continuous Innovation: Leading Change and Motivating Employees”
with Dr. Peter Senge
 October,
2004—Assumption College's Graduate School presents
the 2004 Business Lecture with Dr. Peter Senge, a renowned author
and lecturer, on Wednesday, October 20, 2004. The lecture will take
place in the Hagan Campus Center Hall at 6:30 p.m., with a question-and-answer
period to follow.
In this lecture, Dr. Peter Senge will offer suggestions for establishing
a foundation for ongoing innovation as a way of organizational life:
fostering aspiration, reflection, and systems thinking. He will
also explore implications of building learning-oriented cultures
for leading ethical/moral change, motivating employees (practitioners)
who have settled into a comfort zone, and creating alliances for
larger scale systemic change.
Peter
M. Senge is a senior lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology. He is also Founding Chair of the Society for Organizational
Learning (SoL), a global community of corporations, researchers,
and consultants dedicated to the "interdependent development
of people and their institutions." He is the author of the
widely acclaimed book, The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice
of the Learning Organization (1990), which was identified by
Harvard Business Review as one of the seminal management
books of the past 75 years. With colleagues Charlotte Roberts, Rick
Ross, Bryan Smith and Art Kleiner, Dr. Senge co-authored The
Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies and Tools for Building a
Learning Organization (1994) and a fieldbook, The Dance
of Change: The Challenges to Sustaining Momentum in Learning Organizations
(March, 1999), also co-authored by George Roth. In September 2000,
a fieldbook on education was published, the award winning Schools
That Learn: A Fifth Discipline Fieldbook for Educators, Parents,
and Everyone Who Cares About Education, co-authored with Nelda
Cambron-McCabe, Timothy Lucas, Bryan Smith, Janis Dutton, and Art
Kleiner.
Dr. Senge has lectured extensively throughout the world, translating
the abstract ideas of systems theory into tools for better understanding
of economic and organizational change. His areas of special interest
focus on decentralizing the role of leadership in organizations
so as to enhance the capacity of all people to work productively
toward common goals. Dr. Senge's work articulates a cornerstone
position of human values in the workplace; namely, that vision,
purpose, reflectiveness, and system thinking are essential if organizations
are to realize their potentials. He has worked with leaders in business,
education, health care and government.
This lecture is free and open to the public. For more information,
please contact the Graduate School at (508) 767-7387.
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