An MIT Professor's pathbreaking book on buildinglearning organizations -- corporations thatovercome inherent obstacles to learning anddevelop dynamic ways to pinpoint the threats that facethem and to recognize new opportunities. Not onlyis the learning organization a new source ofcompetitive advantage, it also offers a marvelouslyempowering approach to work, one which promises that,as Archimedes put it, with a lever longenough... single-handed I can move the world....