Five disciplines develop three core learning capabilities of a team

The fundamental unit of learning in an organization is a working team. Effective teams excel at the Core Learning Capabilities of a Team:^[1]

The five disciplines represent approaches (theories and methods) for developing three core learning capabilities: fostering aspiration, developing reflective conversation, and understanding complexity. Building on an idea from the original book, that the fundamental learning units in an organization are working teams (people who need one another to produce an outcome), we came to refer to these as the “core learning capabilities of teams” and symbolically represented them as a three-legged stool, to visually convey the importance of each—the stool would not stand if any of the three were missing.^[2]

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See also:

• Growth mindset reframes failure as learning