Topic: Organizational Learning
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Making It Happen: The Implementation Challenge
About seven years ago, a Fortune 100 corporation began a three-year, $2 million organizational experiment. The goal was to gain a sustainable competitive advantage…
From Spreadsheets to System Dynamics Models
Decision-makers often turn to computer models when they face a problem too “big” to grasp all at once. Having the computer keep track of…
Transforming the Character of a Corporation
We judge others by what they do; we judge ourselves by our intentions.” “What you do thunders so loud, I can’t hear what you…
Shifting the Burden Revisited: Turtles All the Way Down
There is an old story about a student who asked his master, “Teacher, what holds up the world?” The teacher paused for a moment…
Rethinking Leadership in the Learning Organization
How many times have we heard statements like these and simply accepted them as “the way things are?” CEOs and other top executives talk…
The Process of Dialogue: Creating Effective Communication
Consider any complex, potentially volatile issue — Arab-Israeli relations; the problems between the Serbs, Croats, and Bosnians; the U.S. deficit, healthcare costs, or labor/management…
Ishmael: Cultural Dialogue
“TEACHER seeks pupil. Must have an earnest desire to save the world. Apply in person.” Thus begins Ishmael, a compelling exploration of our shared assumptions…
A Journey Through Organizational Change
In the 1970s and 1980s, Digital Equipment Corporation was a successful, thriving computer manufacturer, second only to industry giant IBM. The company’s networking business,…
When to Simulate
Systems thinking offers an array of tools — from systems archetypes to computer models — for improving the quality of decision making. Knowing which…
Learning Histories: “Assessing” the Learning Organization
Anyone working to build a learning organization will, sooner or later, run up against the challenge of “proving” the value of what he or…