"Just as technologists have been blowing away the boundaries of comfortable business performance with discoveries in information technology and biotechnology, The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook group is out to discover the new principles of organizational behavior and learning. Their work is part of a larger conversation among businesspeople around the world who are strugglingto make sense of a fundamental disconnect betwen the principles of the past and the new, as-yet-uninvented ways of the future."

Alan Webber
Harvard Business Review

"Fortunately for continuing students of management, theory is reunited with practice in The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook. The book captures the spirit of an adventurere's log by simultaneously charting frontier territory, describing survival tactics, and recordingfeelings and behavior associated with the exploration. This grown-up "Choose Your Own Adventure" book offers myriad avenues to a multidimensional comprhension of its powerful concepts. "

Industry Weeky

"Peter Senge's advocacy of the learning organization helped begin a revolution in the workplace. And, the relevane of Senge's work is growing rather than diminishing over time. As more businesses go global, the need to overcome psychological barriers to necessary organizational change increases. "

Management Today

"When Peter Senge wrote The Fifth Discipline in 1990, he laid out the basic ingredients of [a 'learning organization']. The idea makes sense, but it won't happen unless organization members go through a personal transformation — no more thinking you've got all the answers. It's not easy work, but Senge argues that it's the only way we'll blow away our old compartmentalized, Industrial Age notions of a job. Senge's message of growth and prosperity holds strong appeal for today's business leaders."

Brian Dumaine
Fortune

"Straightforward and intensely pragmatic, the Fieldbook complements Senge's 1990 book The Fifth Discipline, which defined the rewards of creating an organization that learns. The Fieldbook goes a step further, compiling the wisdom and experience of men and women seeking to create learning organizations in a wide variety of industries and businesses."

Planning Forum

In addition, Global Business Network maintains an online set of reviews by Stewart Brand, founder of the Whole Earth Catalog. These include reviews of The Fifth Discipline, the Fieldbook, and Art Kleiner's book The Age of Heretics.

This Insanely Interactive Systems web site has a section devoted to the Fieldbook; it includes a list of organizations described in the Fieldbook, with links to their home pages.

An in-depth review of The Fifth Discipline by J. Fullerton includes a very good overview of the critical themes and concepts of the five disciplines and learning organizations.