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Learning to Create New Knowledge

For many people, the purpose of pursuing organizational learning is to create new knowledge for competitive advantage. Although researchers and managers alike often assume…

Managing the Global to Local Paradox

TEAM TIP In a group, consider how the “global to local paradox” might play itself out in your organization. How do management’s goals and incentives…

A New Story for a New Time

Throughout our existence, people have told stories as a way to understand our place in the universe and shape our action. When a radically…

Achieving Innovation by Way of Chaos

For centuries, discoveries in science have influenced the development of management theory. In the 1800s, business leaders applied Newton’s linear logic—output is directly proportional…

Scenarios of the Future: The Urgent Case for Sustainability

I was in grade school when the original Limits to Growth (Universe Books, 1972) was published. The environmental consciousness that blossomed in the early…

Empowering People to Learn with and from Each Other

When union steelworkers and management met at the Kansas City, Missouri, Armco plant to renew their labor contract, they found themselves negotiating more than…

Balancing in a Corporate Storm: Boeing’s Quantum Shift Learning Team

In 1994, Boeing’s CEO Phil Condit published an attention-getting article in the company’s internal management publication. In it, he challenged employees to shake off…

Holistic Change: Creating Organizational and Individual Alignment at Genuity

Conventional wisdom says that 70 percent or more of business change efforts, such as process reengineering, fail to meet their objectives. Why? Because these…

The Tragedy of Our Times

Gordon Brown, former dean of the MIT School of Engineering, used to say, “To be a great teacher is to be a prophet —…

Professional Development for Teachers: A Systemic Makeover

Nine years ago, I became executive director of the Texas Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD). This nonprofit organization has a compelling mission:…