QAspire

JANUARY 26, 2011

Jack Welch said, “An organizations ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the greatest competitive advantage.” Continuous learning and its respective implementation to generate desired business outcomes is at the core of successful organizations.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

In a previous blog , I wrote about why you should transform your organization into a network organization and promised to write about how to lead that transformation. To recap, a network organization is all about communities based on connectors and content. Enter a dialog with them about the network organization way of thinking.

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QAspire

FEBRUARY 19, 2017

As an organization grows, managing the flow demands work items to move from one team/department to another. Peter Senge , in his book “ The Fifth Discipline – The Art and Practice of Learning Organization ” outlines 7 organizational learning disabilities. He says, “It is no accident that most organizations learn poorly.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

SEPTEMBER 7, 2014

There was a time when everyone was jumping onto The Learning Organization bandwagon. This usually happened when times were good, when organizations felt a little more ebullient about their prospects and generous toward their employees. It can get pretty complex. To me, a Shared Vision is just that…shared.

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The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Management theorists have long argued the merits of different kinds of organizational structure, with the latest fashion being for flat structures that advocates argue allow organizations to make faster decisions and respond to the rapid pace of change seen in the world today. “A systems intelligent organization is successful.

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The Practical Leader

MARCH 13, 2024

About 85% of the time the fault is caused by the system, processes, structure, or practices of the organization. An organization’s systems are the outcroppings of the organization’s bedrock values and culture. That’s not what happens in most organizations.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 5, 2011

What have you learned? When have you learned? How do you keep learning? Does the average company/organization actually help people learn, so that that they can get better? Does the average employee get better at his or her job? Are you getting better at your job? (Yes,

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Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

presented a session at our 2016 annual conference titled: Applying Deming’s Philosophy and Theory to Create the Foundation for a Learning Organization. Acknowledge that the transformation of the organization will require moving through more than 1 phase. Cliff and Jane Norman ( Profound Knowledge Products, Inc.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Now… Read More In a World of Perpetual Newbies, we all must join the Perpetual Learners Group – (insight from Kevin Kelly’s The Inevitable, & thoughts on learning organizations).

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QAspire

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Organizations that don’t learn constantly, adapt continuously and execute relentlessly are more likely to be disrupted by constant change and competition. We have to go beyond formal learning methods if we have to truly build learning organizations in a rapidly changing world.

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HR Digest

MARCH 30, 2023

The composition of the workforce is constantly evolving , and today’s organizations must embrace a multigenerational workforce to stay competitive. Embracing a multigenerational workforce is essential for building a resilient and innovative organization.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 6, 2015

Constant learning is critical to staying on the exponential curve. Read these quotes carefully: If you’re running a big company today and are not aware of these technologies—not to mention how they might impact your company—you are simply not doing your job. John Seely Brown and John Hagel have observed that although all of our […].

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

But the leverage in most real-life systems, such as most organizations, is not obvious to most of the actors in those systems. Source: The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization. * * *. “It's hard to disagree with the principle of leverage. They don't see the 'structures' underlying their actions.”.

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QAspire

APRIL 2, 2017

In fact, it seems that constant learning is the only key to agility as a team and organization. Jack Welch famously said, “An organizations ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the greatest competitive advantage.”. It all starts from understanding why organizations don’t learn.

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CQ Net - Management skills for everyone!

JUNE 24, 2017

We have already arrived there. Long lost are the days where achievement, wealth, and position relied solely on an individual, or entity’s, capacity to rival against another to obtain the optimum available resources for themselves.

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QAspire

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

The Fifth Discipline – The Art and Practice of Learning Organization ” by Peter Senge is such a profound book that each time I revisit it, I find something deep in a way that it serves as a timely reminder for initiatives that I may be working on. Peter Senge: How to Overcome Learning Disabilities in Organizations.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

There was a time when everyone was jumping onto The Learning Organization bandwagon. This usually happened when times were good, when organizations felt a little more ebullient about their prospects and generous toward their employees. Here’s more about team learning in case you want it. It can get pretty complex.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 8, 2019

A network organization is resilient and sustainable. One of the largest barriers in several organizations is that many managers still tend to think using hierarchical paradigms. What works better is transforming your organization into a network organization. What’s the alternative? Why would you want to do that?

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

Kayes states, “Individual experience…sets the stage for learning across the organization, including the individual, team and system levels of interaction…When individuals in organizations are open to new experiences, reflect on successes and failures, update their perspective and take calculated risks and experiment, they learn.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The Significance of Talent in Modern Business High performers are crucial to any organization’s success. Professional Growth and Development : Continuous Learning: Organizations that excel operationally often prioritize continuous learning and development.

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QAspire

OCTOBER 30, 2019

It happens when we act on what we learn, go through the experience, take risks and then develop insights through the lens of that experience. Just like organizations need to build right mental models for creating a learning organization, individuals need to build mental habits that enable lifelong learning.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2014

The Future of Work : Attract New Talent, Build Better Leaders, and Create a Competitive Organization by Jacob Morgan. Learn or Die : Using Science to Build a Leading-Edge Learning Organization by Edward D. Smartcuts : How Hackers, Innovators, and Icons Accelerate Success by Shane Snow.

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Deming Institute

MARCH 18, 2019

Mike Tveite shared his thoughts on The Role of Learning in Improving Organizations at the 1991 Ohio Quality and Productivity Forum conference. The point Mike makes throughout his presentation, and I agree, is that when you use the PDSA cycle well that is what will happen; you will learn and find new questions to explore.

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

It’s created a world in which the speed of learning is a competitive advantage, both for individuals and organizations. Of course, learning organizations are not necessarily a new thing, but their nature has changed. Netflix, for instance, shifted from DVD rental to streaming.

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The Practical Leader

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

In their study, Innovation by All, Great Place to Work concluded organizations with high-trust cultures involve and engage many more employees than most organizations in the innovation process. Functional organizations’ ratios are 5:2, while the slowest and worst-performing organizations are 3:2.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

At a corporate or team level we would describe those cultures with different language: Flexibility/Discretion : The organization focuses on its ability to change with circumstances or market forces and empower its workforce. Stability/Control: The organization focuses on its commitment to strategic direction and internal reliability.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 28, 2018

He is exceptionally proud of his organization and the people he employs. He is keen to create a learning organization that will empower his employees to stay a step ahead of the new international competitors, who are putting pressure on his sales and profits. In short, they must learn deliberately.

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Experience to Lead

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Commit to Virtual Learning. Adapting to virtual work environments was originally seen as a challenge, and now, it has provided endless opportunities to connect and inspire your organization. By targeting your organizations’ challenges with unique approaches and tailormade solutions, innovation will prosper among team members.

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QAspire

JULY 5, 2022

organizations cannot rely on top-down problem solving. Such challenges require emergent leadership from across the board within organization to make sense of reality, iterate solutions, adapt and learn along the way. How do leaders go about creating a culture of learning and adaptability?

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LDRLB

JANUARY 19, 2015

In this interview, we talk about who to use science to build a leading-edge learning organization. Leadership Podcast burkus Hess innovation leadership Learning Organization' Listen below or follow via iTunes or Stitcher. This podcast is supported by Audible.com.

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LDRLB

JANUARY 19, 2015

In this interview, we talk about who to use science to build a leading-edge learning organization. Leadership burkus Hess innovation Learning Organization Podcast' Listen below or follow via iTunes or Stitcher. This podcast is supported by Audible.com.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 25, 2016

Ray Stata, former chairman of Analog Devices and a pioneer in creating learning organizations, said: “The rate at which individuals and organizations learn may become the only sustainable competitive advantage.” ” (More background on that quote here.)

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Leading in Context

JUNE 1, 2011

If we use fear-based leadership, bullying, command-and-control leadership, belittling, sabotage or other forms of psychological violence, or allow them to be used by others in our organizations, we create the opposite of a supportive, productive learning organization. LeadinginContext.com.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 30, 2014

Ten Things You Will Learn from Writing on LinkedIn by @briansooy. Learning organizations are less about IQ and more about EQ. Here are a selection of tweets from June 2014 that you might have missed: All Our Patent Are Belong To You by @elonmusk Technology leadership is not defined by patents. TeslaMotors.

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QAspire

JUNE 19, 2019

Leadership that is social in approach when it comes to building communities, enabling engagement and participating in knowledge flows across the network (both inside the organization through corporate social tools as well as external social media). 3 C’s for Learning and Leading on Social Media. Future of Work: Ways to Prepare.

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The Practical Leader

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Innovation and organization learning often falls into the same trap as strategic planning, economic forecasting, and change management. ” Four Steps to Balancing Agile Leadership and Innovation Management Agile organizations are knowledge-creating cultures thriving on controlled chaos. It’s a big competitive edge.

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Deming Institute

DECEMBER 9, 2019

The view of an organization as a system by W. How to Transform the Management System of an Organization. The Learning Organization: From Vision to Reality by Margaret Wheatley and Peter Senge. Transforming Jet-Hot by Viewing the Organization as a System. The Degree of Interdependence. Ackoff and Kellie Wardman.

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