Tag: organizational learning
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Rebuilding Trust Within Organizations
Edith was conducting an outplacement seminar designed to offer support to people who had just lost their jobs. Shortly before the session was to…
Managing Organizations As Learning Portfolios
Metaphors and images are powerful tools that mirror and shape how we perceive and interact with the world. The presumptions we carry about people,…
Large-Scale Projects as Complex Systems: Managing “Scope Creep”
C.Northcote Parkinson’s now famous adage, “Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion,” may be overly optimistic. Unfortunately, work tends…
Dialogue-Based Forums for Healthcare Organizations
Although people in most industries can fall prey to organizational dynamics based on advocacy, power and control, personal agendas, and blame, nowhere is this…
Confessions of a Recovering Knower
Hi, my name is Brian and I am a recovering knower. But for the grace of God, and the disciplines of organizational learning, I…
Emergent Learning: Taking “Learning From Experience” To a New Level
Afundamental paradox of working in today’s fast-paced organizations is that we don’t have time to make mistakes, but we don’t have time to avoid…
Working in an Unhappy Place: Reengaging Disaffected Employees Through Conflict Resolution
Why can’t we all just get along?” asked Rodney King famously, echoing the sentiments of many of us who have at some point or…
Systems Learning for “Error-Free” Performance at Colonial Pipeline
Colonial Pipeline Company, headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, operates the largest-volume refined petroleum products pipeline system in the world. Stretching from Houston, Texas, to Linden,…
Opening Space for Virtual Global Collaboration
on Saturday, May 9, 2009, approximately 50 people from around the world logged into a Skype Chat for the opening session of a virtual…
The Power of “And”: Fostering Creative Teams at Hydro Aluminum
How can we inspire individuals to contribute value to the whole company and not just their group or department? In 1998, Marianne M. Aamodt…