Topic: Organizational Learning

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Built to Flip”: Is the Sky Really the Limit?

Ihese days, it seems that whenever you pick up a business magazine, you’re treated to a photograph of yet another 28-year-old Internet millionaire. By…

The Downside of the “Prevent Defense”

In the American game of football, there is a strategy that teams often employ in the fourth and last quarter—the “prevent defense.” If their…

European Wine Regulations: Sour Grapes or Competitive Edge?

Trouble is fermenting in the wine world. As established European vineyards look on nervously, upstarts in countries like the United States, New Zealand, and…

Boomers Face Nursing Bust

The United States may be in the midst of the most dramatic nursing shortage ever—and it’s only getting worse. The government projects that 450,000…

Aren’t Learning Organizations Curious?

For all the powers of computers, Picasso considered them useless because “they give only answers.” Isn’t one of the remaining advantages of being human…

Scouting for–and Keeping–Talented Employees

In today’s era of low unemployment and go-go economy, it’s becoming increasingly difficult for companies to recruit and retain talented employees. Organizations know that…

Personal Computers: From Mania to Market Saturation?

As Robert Samuelson recently wrote in Newsweek, “When something continues for a long time, it’s hard to imagine it ending.” In the personal computer…

Readers’ Response to “Built to Flip”

The Internet Revolution In the past, Initial Purchase Offerings (IPOs) and other lucrative investments in up-and-coming companies were available only to large institutions, to those…

The Deeper Dimensions of Transformational Change: A Call to Collective Inquiry and Action

Presence: Human Purpose and the Field of the Future (Society for Organizational Learning, 2004) represents a further evolution of many of the themes presented…

The Kaospilots: School of Societal Change, Business Creativity, and Personal Mastery

Imagine you attend an educational institution where your ideas are supported and anything seems possible. Imagine that, as a student, you are valued as…