Assignment:
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 to 3 paragraphs in APA format.