Peter Michael Senge was born in 1947, he is an American scientist. Senge holds a BS in Aerospace Engineering from Stanford University. At Stanford, Senge also studied philosophy. He then earned a master's degree in social systems modeling from MIT in 1972. He also earned a Ph.D. He graduated from the MIT Sloan School of Management in 1978 (Wikipedia, 2011). He was director of the Center for Organizational Learning at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and since 2005 he had been on the faculty at MIT. the Society for Organizational Learning (SoL). This organization facilitates the communication of ideas between large companies. It replaced the previous organization known as the MIT Center for Organizational Learning. He has practiced meditation regularly since 1996 and began meditating with a trip to Tassajara, a Zen Buddhist monastery, before attending Stanford. He recommends meditation or similar forms of contemplative practice (Wikipedia, 2011). Besides writing The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of The Learning Organization (1990), Peter Senge has also co-authored a number of other books related to the themes first developed in The Fifth Discipline. These include the Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies and Tools for Building a Learning Organization (1994); The Dance of Change: The Challenges to Sustaining Momentum in Learning Organizations (1999) and its latest schools learning in the year 2000 (Smith, 2001). Review: The article begins with Senge stating that he believes that in today's organizations there are five new component technologies that offer a different dimension that learning organizations can leverage. As author Michael Marquardt stated: Four main forces lie in the middle of the paper......perceived limitations. In learning organizations, everyone's opinions are valued and the amount people can contribute is not always determined by position in the organization. Works Cited Kleiner, A. (1995). Why a learning organization. Retrieved March 5, 2011, from http://world.std.com/~lo/WhatLO.htmlMarquardt, M.J. (2002). Building the learning organization (2nd ed.). Palo Alto, CA: Consulting Psychologists Press. Senge, P. M. (1990). The learning organization. Classics of Organizational Behavior, 468-472. Reprinted from The Fifth Discipline. Smith, M. K. (2001). Peter Senge and the learning organization, the encyclopedia of informal education, retrieved March 5, 2011 from the website: www.infed.org/thinkers/senge.htmWikipedia (January 2011). Peter M. Senge. Retrieved March 5, 2011 from website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Senge