五项修炼,是彼得·圣吉创立的五种修炼方法,通过这五种方法,一个一般的人就可以修炼成“学习型的人”;一个一般的组织就可以修炼成“学习型组织”。“修炼”的英文“discipling”,也可翻译成宗教术语“教规、戒律、修行”。从圣吉所归纳的五项修炼及其难度来看,一个人或组织必需持有“修炼”的决心和毅力,否则难以有所作为。从人性的角度分析,五项修炼中的每一项修炼都可以看作是人性的锤炼。关于人性的问题,古往今来的哲学家,心理学家都曾作过深刻的研究和分析。现代社会心理学的研究表明,人性包括人类原欲(食欲、性欲、知欲等)和原恶(任性、懒惰、嫉妒等),以及 The five practices are the five cultivation methods that Peter Saint-Ji founded. Through these five methods, an ordinary person can practice as a “learning person”; a general organization can practice as a “learning organization” . The “discipling” of “practice” can also be translated into the religious term “canon, precepts, practice”. From the five disciplines Sikh induction and its difficulty, a person or organization must hold “practice” determination and perseverance, or difficult to make a difference. From the perspective of human nature, each of the five practices can be regarded as a temper of human nature. On the issue of human nature, philosophers and psychologists all over the world have conducted profound research and analysis. Studies in modern social psychology show that human nature includes the original human appetite (appetite, sexual desire, intellectual curiosity, etc.) and the original evil (wayward, lazy, jealous, etc.) and