Topic: Organizational Learning
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The Journey to Z: Realizing the Potential of an Organization
Read the business media today and you’ll see that organizations of all types, from all sectors, are in deep trouble. There are many reasons…
Consultants as Problem Solvers or Capacity Builders?
As we seek ways to cope with the increasing rate and complexity of change affecting our businesses, many of us have begun to recognize…
Emotional Intelligence: Fad or Fundamental Skillset?
Emotional Intelligence — we’ve all seen books, presentations, TV specials, interviews, and conferences about it. Even the venerable Harvard Business Review has published articles…
Spiritual Intelligence: A New Paradigm for Collaborative Action
What makes a great collaboration? One view is that a collaboration is only as great as the individuals who collaborate within it. Another is…
How Learning Works
Recently, I had a long conversation with my fifteen-year-old daughter, Elise, about why she had to learn algebra. I had helped her with a…
A Practice Theory for Organizational Learning
Acarpenter once came to work on my house carrying four heavy boxes of tool. I was taken by one elegant hand saw. “Japanese,” he…
Learning From Everyday Conflict
Recently the president of a large professional services organization brought in an external consultant to mediate a conflict between two vice presidents. The relationship…
Partnership Coaching
Iwant you to create the new print ad campaign. Here’s a copy of what we’ve done in the past and a summary of my…
Communities of Practice: Learning as a Social System
You are a claims processor working for a large insurance company. You are good at what you do, but although you know where your…
People in Context, Part I
Our efforts to understand and intervene in organizational events have a persistent bias: to interpret phenomena from a personal framework. In other words, situations…