Topic: Organizational Learning
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New Product Development: A Tragedy in the Making?
Detroit’s Big Three, once the epitome of beleaguered U.S. manufacturers, now appear to be at the forefront of a resurgence in American manufacturing. As…
Transforming a Command-and-Control Culture
Introducing learning organization principles to a company is difficult and fraught with uncertainty. How do you lead without taking the reins? How do you…
The Learning Organization: From Vision to Reality
Building learning organizations requires more than just “re-engineering” our existing structures. It requires a whole new vision of what organizations can become and a…
Systems Thinking and Strategic Planning in Healthcare
Throughout my 17 years as an executive in various hospitals and healthcare systems, systems thinking has become an increasingly important element in my work.
Using “Success to the Successful” to Avoid Competency Traps
Have you ever wondered why clocks run in the…uh…clockwise direction? Or why the QWERTY keyboard design is the standard for virtually all English typewriters…
The Emergence of Learning Communities
Meeting the challenges that face our society today will require us to go beyond traditional organizational, gender, and ethnic boundaries. Learning in community offers…
Levels of Understanding: “Fire-fighting” at Multiple Levels
It’s another busy night in the hospital emergency room. Several car accident victims have been rushed into surgery, one little boy is having a…
Connecting Learning with Earning
If you look at the data from your last physical, you will most likely see standard diagnostic tests such as EKG, Blood Pressure, and…
Using “Growth and Underinvestment” for Capital Planning
The book The Day the Universe Changed tells of a man who once commented to the philosopher Wittgenstein that medieval Europeans must have been…
Unlocking Organizational Routines That Prevent Learning
Organizational life is awash with incongruities. In one organization the CEO told the world, “Product X is our top priority,” even as the development…