Topic: Organizational Learning

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Giving Up Your Soul Is Bad Business

During tough times, companies— and the people in them—tend to give up their souls. Workers put aside who they truly are, what they most…

The Path of Creative Disruption: A Foundation for Sustainable Change

Sustainable change happens when people begin to see the world differently. It takes only a momentary abandonment of longstanding beliefs and assumptions for this…

The “Infectious” Spread of Change at Nortel Networks

Transforming a large, successful organization with facilities around the world to meet the needs of a changing market is a challenging undertaking. But several…

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…

“Staging” a Comeback at Unilever

Over the past couple of years, O some brave souls in the business world have started to talk about the link between personal growth…

Change as Challenge: Taking Stock of Organizational Learning

W ith the publication of The Fifth Discipline in 1990, Peter Senge added significant momentum to the growing field of organizational learning (OL). The…

Acting on Interdependence

The world works much better when we respect its interdependence. I learned this lesson 15 years ago, when my colleagues at Rocky Mountain Institute…

Learning Differently in the Classroom

For 10 years now, Peter Senge’s articulation of the five disciplines of organizational learning have revolutionized the business and healthcare arenas. The practice of…

A Curriculum for Transformational Learning

We all know from personal experience that acknowledging the need to do something differently doesn’t mean that we actually change how we act (just…

Operationalizing Systems Thinking on One Page

It is always a thrill to gain new insights after applying systems thinking to a problem situation. Imagine a team that is exhilarated from…