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The Spirit of the Learning Organization
At one point in the movie Excalibur, King Arthur lay weakened in bed as his whole kingdom crumbled around him. Most of his knights…
The Learning Organization: From Vision to Reality
Building learning organizations requires more than just “re-engineering” our existing structures. It requires a whole new vision of what organizations can become and a…
Systems Thinking and Strategic Planning in Healthcare
Throughout my 17 years as an executive in various hospitals and healthcare systems, systems thinking has become an increasingly important element in my work.
The Emergence of Learning Communities
Meeting the challenges that face our society today will require us to go beyond traditional organizational, gender, and ethnic boundaries. Learning in community offers…
Connecting Learning with Earning
If you look at the data from your last physical, you will most likely see standard diagnostic tests such as EKG, Blood Pressure, and…
Unlocking Organizational Routines That Prevent Learning
Organizational life is awash with incongruities. In one organization the CEO told the world, “Product X is our top priority,” even as the development…
Learning to Learn: A New Look at Product Development
At Ford Motor Company, we know how to design cars. We have the engineering, the technology, the Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE) tools. But we haven’t…
Creating Learning Organizations
The “learning organization” is fast becoming a corporate buzzword. Many companies are jumping on the bandwagon without really understanding what a learning organization is, or…
Double-Loop Accounting–A Language for the Learning Organization
If accountants (“those bean-counters”) are so dumb and we (“who really know this business”) are so smart, why do they run our companies? We complain…
The Do’s and Don’ts of Systems Thinking on the Job
So you’ve taken a systems thinking course — or maybe you’ve read a few issues of The Systems Thinker — and now you want to…