Charlotte Roberts co-authored the Fifth Discipline Fieldbook and Dance of Change. These books have been translated in 120 different languages. Over a million copies have been sold worldwide.

The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook
Strategies and Tools for Building A Learning Organization
by Peter Senge, Art Kleiner, Charlotte Roberts, Richard Ross, Bryan Smith

Doubleday/Currency
Publication Date: July 1, 1994
Pages: 594 pages ISBN: 0-385-47256-0

The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook, published in 1994, followed up on Peter Senge's book The Fifth Discipline. While The Fifth Discipline laid out the principles particularly applicable to long-term organizational improvement, the Fieldbook was meant to answer the question "What should we do differently when we go to work on Monday morning?" Forging a new, and often-copied style, The Fieldbook incorporated practice guides, exercises, stories, resource reviews, and short essays all aimed at helping people implement the disciplines on a day-to-day basis in a wide variety of settings. It clearly described how to get started in the practice of the principles of organizational learning, reflecting not just one person's theory, but the experience and reflection of an entire community of practitioners.

Although The Fieldbook was intended as a book of practice, not theory, it embodies a key theoretical argument:

• Organizations are products of the ways that people in them think and interact.
• To change organizations for the better, you must give people the opportunity to change the ways they think and interact.
• No one person, including a highly charismatic teacher or CEO, can train or command someone else to alter their attitudes, beliefs, skills, capabilities, perceptions, or level of commitment.
• Instead, the practice of organizational learning involves developing and taking part in tangible activities that will change the way people conduct their work.

Through these new governing ideas, innovations in infrastructure, and new management methods and tools people develop an enduring capability for change. The process pays back the organization with a far greater diversity and intensity of commitment, innovation, and talent.

The Dance of Change:
The Challenges of Sustaining Momentum in Learning Organizations
by Peter Senge, Art Kleiner, Charlotte Roberts, Richard Ross, George Roth, Bryan Smith

Doubleday/Currency
Publication Date: April 1, 1999
Pages: 642 pages ISBN: 0-385-49322-3

All organizations that innovate or learn come up against innate challenges that block progress. The harder you push against these challenges, the more they seem to resist. But if you can anticipate them, and build your capabilities for dealing with them, they become opportunities for growth.

The Dance of Change is a fieldbook of strategies and methods for moving beyond the first steps of corporate change to generate long-lasting results. The six authors and more than 100 key contributors write in the concise, down-to-earth style of The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook. This far-reaching and practical compendium addresses the frustrations and opportunities people in organizations everywhere are facing. Contributors include Douglas Engelbart, inventor of the computer mouse; well-known management authors Peter Block, Joe Jaworski, and Edgar Schein; the head of General Electric's renowned organizational learning program; and CEOs and managing directors from some of the most prominent companies in the world.