Applying the Five Disciplines: The Fifth Discipline

Firefighting provides only temporary relief and does not address the root issues. Study The Fifth Discipline's framework to identify underlying assumptions and integrate all five disciplines through systems thinking, enabling you to devise a powerful intervention for ongoing problems.
  • Author: Dr. Henderson

  • Level: Foundational
  • Study Mode: Self-paced
  • Recommended Period: 2 Weeks
  • Estimated Learning Time: ~14 Hours
  • Proficiency: 2 Graded Assessments
  • Award: 1 Certificate
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To ensure the best continuity in your learning, we recommend completing the course within the recommended completion period. The course is self-paced, so you can adapt your learning schedule around work and other commitments.
Course overview
Applying the Five Disciplines is a two-week applied micro-course on the five disciplines of the learning organization. It teaches a single, practical method: taking a persistent problem you are responsible for, seeing the structure that produces it, surfacing the mental models that hide it, and integrating systems thinking with personal mastery, shared vision, and team learning to design a leveraged intervention that changes the cause rather than the symptom.
No prior study of systems theory is assumed. By the end of the two weeks, you will be able to diagnose the systemic root cause of a persistent problem and design an intervention that builds an adaptive, continuously improving organization — and defend every choice in how you built it.
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  • Systems Thinking
  • Organizational Change
  • Leadership
  • Strategy

Your Instructor

Taught by a practitioner. Moderated by the same.
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Dr. Henderson held Vice-President and senior managerial positions within the commercial real estate industry with Bentall Capital, Brookfield Properties, Kolter Properties, KPMG Canada LLP, and Reichmann International. During his professional career, Dr. Henderson worked on the development and management of real estate projects surpassing $6 billion, both in Canada and the United States. While at KPMG, Dr. Henderson held the position of Vice-President within the FIRE consulting section: Finance, Insurance and Real Estate.

Dr. Jeffrey Henderson is a Professor of Business Ethics and Dean at Monarch Business School, where he's been since 2010. Previously, he was an affiliate professor at Grenoble Graduate School of Business and a lecturer at McGill University. He holds a D.Phil. from Monarch Business School, a Doctor of Political Economy from SMC University, a Doctorandus and MBA from Nijenrode University, and a Bachelor's from McGill University.
His academic interests include CSR, real estate development, Austrian Economics, and Catholic Social Theory. He also has a P.Mgr. designation and was historically a member of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors.