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Fostering a Culture of Innovation and Organizational Learning

The Practical Leader

Leaders need more speed with changing internal systems, launching new products, and responding to rapidly changing markets. The fastest, most nimble organizations have a ratio of 11:2 — eleven employees pulling the organization forward for every two, dragging on growth and agility. Work is transformed from a job to a joy.

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Are These Systems Serving or Subverting Organization Results?

The Practical Leader

Harvard Business School Professor Ted Levitt, a leading research and author in management, marketing, and former editor of Harvard Business Review, said “Early decline and certain death are the fate of companies whose policies are geared totally and obsessively to their own convenience at the total expense of the customer.”

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Value-Added Leadership

Strategy Driven

Values, customs, beliefs, goals, objectives, benchmarking. Learn from failures, reframing them as opportunities. Learn to expect, predict, understand and relish success. Study and utilize marketing and business development techniques. Learning Organizations Are More Successful. Systems and Processes.

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Abbe Luersman from Otis on Creating Communities to Win as One

HR Digest

Inclusivity means different things in different geographies and as a leader in a global organization, addressing issues in the U.S. We must ensure that we drive to a workforce that is reflective of the markets in which we live, work, and serve globally. We want to be a continuous learning organization.

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The Hidden Ways Organizational Culture Can Impact Your Team’s Functioning

Lead Change Blog

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. Involvement/Clan: Commitment to the organization is most valued.

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The Transformational Leader: Compass to a New World, part 1

Strategy Driven

You will learn to: Assess and analyze your current situation. Build a learning organization that thrives on change. Win the hearts and minds of individuals, so they share and work toward your organization’s goals. What trends do you see in the market, and how does your competition relate to them?

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Why the Problem with Learning Is Unlearning

Harvard Business Review

Ever since the publication of Peter Senge’s The Fifth Discipline , 25 years ago, companies have sought to become “learning organizations” that continually transform themselves. In our era of digital disruption, this goal is more important than ever. The problem isn’t learning: it’s unlearning.

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