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Are These Systems Serving or Subverting Organization Results?

The Practical Leader

As engineer and co-founder of the Center for Systems Awareness, Peter Senge, said in The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of The Learning Organization , “Structure influences behavior. ” Many organizations induce learned helplessness. Is the team managing human capital or leading people?

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Reflecting on David Garvin’s Imprint on Management

Harvard Business Review

Garvin was a generalist more than a specialist, perhaps because he came of age at HBS during the 1980s, when the school’s primary focus was the development of skilled general managers. But the main contribution of “Is Yours a Learning Organization?” He didn’t produce one signature idea, like Robert S.