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The Five Disciplines

of the learning organization

1. Personal mastery
2. Mental models
3. Building shared vision
4. Team learning
5. Systems thinking - The Fifth Discipline that integrates the other 4

The Learning Disabilities

1. "I am my position."
   People fail to recognize their purpose as a part of the enterprise. Instead, they see themselves as an inconsequential part of a system over which they have little influence, leading them to limit themselves to the jobs they must perform at their own positions. This makes it hard to pinpoint the reason an enterprise is failing, with so many hidden 'loose screws' around.
2. "The enemy out there."
3. The Illusion of Taking Charge
4. The Fixation of Events
   The tendency to see things as results of short-term events undermines our ability to see things on a grander scale. Cave men needed to react to events quickly for survival. However, the biggest threats we face nowadays are rarely sudden events, but slow, gradual processes, such as environmental changes.
5. The Parable of the Boiling frog
6. The Delusion of Learning from Experience
7. The Myth of the Management Team

The 11 Laws of the Fifth Discipline

1. Today's problems come from yesterday's "solutions."
2. The harder you push, the harder the system pushes back.
3. Behavior will grow worse before it grows better.
4. The easy way out usually leads back in.
5. The cure can be worse than the disease.
6. Faster is slower.
7. Cause and effect are not closely related in time and space.
8. Small changes can produce big results...but the areas of highest leverage are often the least obvious.
9. You can have your cake and eat it too ---but not all at once.
10. Dividing an elephant in half does not produce two small elephants.
11. There is no blame.

In 1975 he organized the first International Research Forum in Information Science (IRFIS) at University College London to discuss the theoretical aspects of information science[59, 60, 61]. In his review at the end of the forum Brookes concluded "...information science...has arrived as a science [61]. The success of this first conference has led to five further IRFIS conferences dealing with various theoretical research topics in information science, and at each Brookes has made his contribution [82, 70, 87, 105, 117].

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Brookes has never written a book on information science. I suspect because he is constantly developing new ideas and is too busy to be interested in repeating something that he has already said. In the early 1980s, he published a series of papers in which he described information science as he then saw it -- philosophical and quantitative aspects, and areas for future development [78, 79, 80, 86]. These papers have stimulated much discussion, and the development of a philosophy for information science is surely an indication of its increasing maturity as a science. Brookes has never been afraid to discuss and at times disagree with other research workers. This is his view of how science advances, through the discussion and consequent modification of theories. A quick count of citations since 1980 shows that Brookes' most cited papers are still his two earliest works on Bradford's Law [25, 27], but that his first paper on the foundations of information science [78] is a close third. At the end of the final paper in this series in 1981 [86] he provided a concise reading list on the background to his thinking. At the 1989 Bibliometrics, Scientometrics and Informetrics conference [123] he discussed the development of information science and its terminology in a wide ranging paper.

Brookes retired from University College London in 1977. "Retired" is the wrong word to ......