Topic: Organizational Learning
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Establishing an Open Dialogue Down Under at Murdoch Magazines
In March 2001, the international media company Murdoch Magazines was nominated as one of the top 20 employers to work for in Australia. Renowned…
Six Steps to Thinking Systemically
Bijou Bottling Company is a fictitous beverage bottler with an all too real problem: chronic late shipments. Its customers—major chain retailers—are looking for orders…
Follow the Yellow Brick Road: The Journey of a Learning Organization
One sunny summer day in July of 1994, the executive team of Gerber Memorial Health Services (GMHS) set off to attend a three-day seminar…
Steps Toward Organizational Learning: The Swiss Post
In 1992 the Swiss Post started to transform itself from part of a public institution into an autonomous, efficient, and competitive public enterprise. With…
Mental Models and Systems Thinking: Going Deeper into Systemic Issues
In a causal loop diagram of a systemic issue, variables are connected in cause-and-effect relationships. But often the implicit thought processes behind those links…
Keeping Performance up to Speed
Last week, while I was waiting for a phone call at my home office, I ran a utility program on my relatively new computer…
Acting and Thinking Systemically
In the summer of 2006, a group of local foundations supported the leaders of Calhoun County Michigan (population 100,000), in developing a 10-year plan…
Seeing Yourself Whole: A System of Power and Purpose
It was an early November day in Massachusetts, when forecasters of both the weather and the economy agreed that the outlook was bleak. My…
Double-Loop Knowledge Management
These are trying times for the field of knowledge management. Shunned by many as little more than yesterday’s information technology trotted out in today’s…
Leadership at the Inflection Point
For a leader, few experiences compare with the gut-wrenching discovery that you are unprepared to face a changing reality. It’s even worse if you…