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My 2020 Story and a Few Lessons Along the Way

QAspire

Pursuing your hobbies and creative interests is a great antidote to anxiety. As it turns out, it also helps the environment. 5 Disciplines of a Learning Organization: Peter Senge. Through sketchnote project, I have learned that immersing the self in an engrossing activity puts us in flow. Also Read: 8 Factors of Happiness ).

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5 Human-Centric Skills to “Flex” for Ever-Changing Workplaces

Experience to Lead

The solution many top-performing companies have turned to is the development of human-centric skills (aka “soft skills”) that technology can’t replace just yet, like creativity and empathy. Peter Senge, one of the pioneers of learning and development, coined the term “Personal Mastery” to explain an innate desire to learn and better oneself.

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5 Key Lessons From Learning Organizations

QAspire

Peter Senge has done some amazing work on organization development and systems thinking. I have also had the pain of being in an environment where money and resource was thrown at a problem and I just saw the inefficiency get bigger. This is true for all businesses large and small. What about you? Have you seen such organizations?

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On “Systems Thinking” and Improvement

QAspire

Today, when I am responsible for improvements in a business environment, this lesson serves me well. You can change the system only when you know the system – and knowing the system is a curious and creative pursuit. Improvement starts when you are “intentional” about being curious and creative. Remain curious and be creative.

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Fixing the Malaise in U.S. High Tech

Harvard Business Review

Innovation is the use of creativity to solve real customer problems. If you want those new creative concepts to come forward, you must foster a corporate culture that incorporates five leadership principles of innovation: 1. It was so exciting, so creative. So we decided to keep everyone and be creative in reducing expenses.

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The Shape of the Meaning Organization

Harvard Business Review

It's a nod to — but a step beyond — Peter Senge's learning organization. Instead, companies are going to have to get lethally serious about having an enduring, meaningful, resonant, multiplying, positive, proliferating set of impacts — of all types, whether social, human, intellectual, spiritual, creative, or relational.