The Fifth Discipline

Peter M. Senge

This is not a programming book. Some would even refer to it as a business or management book. But it’s not that either in my opinion. It’s about systems thinking, about how everything is connected, and about how no human is an island. Peter M Senge is a system thinker and has worked with upper management in several big organisations. Putting such organisations into a systems perspective, both how they work from the inside and how they interact with everything else, he lays out a path for how we can start to change things. This is a book that really makes an impact, I think. There is so much wisdom here that can be applied to most things in life even if the book is very much oriented around managing organisations. I also think this is a great way to understand systems thinking in a practical way, and how it can help us better understand the interconnectedness of everything (and I mean that literary).