Archetypes
Authority
Community
Intimacy
Learning
Mental Models
System
Systemic Structure
Systems Thinking
Teams
Theory, Method, Tool
Vision
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The word "team" can be traced back to the Indo-European word deuk (to pull);
it has always included a meaning of "pulling together." (The modern sense of team, "a
group of people acting together," emerged in the sixteenth century.) We define "teams"
as any group of people who need each other to accomplish a result. this definition is
derived from a statement made by former Royal Dutch/Shell Group Planning coordinator Arie de
Geus: "The only relevant learning in a company is the learning done by those people who
have the power to take action." (Art Kleiner)
Excerpted from The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook. Copyright 1994 by Peter M.
Senge, Art Kleiner, Charlotte Roberts, Richard B. Ross, and Bryan J. Smith. Reprinted with permission.
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