Human Performance Improvement: Building Practitioner Competence

Systems Thinking & Understanding

Recommended Readings

These readings were selected for their appropriateness to the Human Performance Improvement field. This list is not intended to be comprehensive, nor is it intended to endorse or exclude any particular book.

  • The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization
    Senge, Peter M., New York, NY: Doubleday/Currency, 1994
    ISBN: 0385260954

  • The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies and Tools for Building a Learning Organization
    Senge, Peter M. (Editor), Kleiner, Art (Editor), Roberts, Charlotte, Ross, Rick, & Smith, Bryan, New York, NY: Doubleday/Currency, 1994
    ISBN: 0385472560

  • The Learning Alliance: Systems Thinking in Human Resource Development
    Brinkerhoff, Robert O., & Gill, Stephen J., San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1994
    ISBN: 1555427111

  • Seeing Systems: Unlocking the Mysteries of Organizational Life
    Oshry, Barry, San Francisco, CA: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc., 1996
    ISBN: 1881052990

Workshops

These workshops were selected for their content and appropriateness for the Human Performance Improvement field. This list is not intended to be comprehensive, nor is it intended to endorse or exclude any particular workshop.

  • Systems Thinking: A Language for Learning and Action
    Length: 3 days Cost: $2,450
    Location: Boston and Toronto
    Innovation Associates
    100 Fifth Avenue, Sixth Floor
    Waltham, MA 02451
    Telephone: (781) 398-8500
    E-mail:
    Website: www.innovationassociates.com

  • Beyond Reengineering: Partner-Centered Performance
    Length: Contact the vendor Cost: $235
    Location: Various; Contact Vendor
    Systems Thinking Institute
    259 Goffstown RD
    Manchester, NH 03102-2701
    Telephone: (603) 668-8693 voice
    Website: www.systhink-inst.com

  • Integrated Thinking Process Course
    Length: 9 days Cost: Approximately $3,500
    Location: Contact Vendor
    Goal Systems International
    P.O.

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