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Be Conducive to Learning

Lead Change Blog

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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Are you a Leader or a Lemming?

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from Sandy Coletta: I know what you are thinking - a lemming is a follower and by its very definition, a leader isn’t a follower. Perhaps it starts within your organization, then within your industry? To continue to have our product priced competitively so we can increase sales, we need to reduce our costs.

Six Sigma 209
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Cure Your Company's Allergy to Change

Harvard Business Review

But they're not failing fast to learn. It's definitely not a learning organization. By organizing by customer, cross-functional changes became much easier to implement, and there was a dramatic turnaround in business results. They're just failing more. How do companies get trapped in such tragic change cycles?