Topic: Personal Mastery
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Human Dynamics: A Foundation for the Learning Organization
In The Fifth Discipline, Peter Senge posed the question, “How can a team of committed managers with individual IQs above 120 have a collective…
TQM and Systems Thinking as Theory-Building Tools
Our brains are pattern-making systems — they organize our perceptions of the world into patterns that enable us to function effectively. For example, when…
The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: A Guide to the Learning Organization
Jorge Valchez is an organizational development consultant at International Chocolate, Inc., a (fictional) confectionery company. A few years ago, he picked up a copy…
The Spirit of the Learning Organization
At one point in the movie Excalibur, King Arthur lay weakened in bed as his whole kingdom crumbled around him. Most of his knights…
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…
An Organizational View from the Bottom Up
New World Dictionary defines “manage” as “to train (a horse) to go through its paces, to manipulate, control the behavior and or movement of.” “Support”…
Management Flight Simulators: Flight Training for Managers (Part I)
Imagine you’re leaving on a six-hour flight from Boston to Los Angeles. As the plane pulls away from the gate, the pilot comes on over…
Saturn Strains Under Success
Saturn, General Motors’ bold experiment in car manufacturing, is running into troubled times. Revolutionary no-haggle prices and a strong reputation for quality made Saturn…
Learning to Learn: A New Look at Product Development
At Ford Motor Company, we know how to design cars. We have the engineering, the technology, the Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE) tools. But we haven’t…
Using “Shifting the Burden” to Break Organizational Gridlock
Something there is that doesn’t love a wall,” wrote American poet Robert Frost in his poem “Mending Wall.” As the speaker and his neighbor…