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Leaders and the Learning Organization

You're Not the Boss of Me

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.

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Leaders and the Learning Organization | You're Not the Boss of Me

You're Not the Boss of Me

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. This speaks to the dangers of clinging to, and operating from, narrow perspectives.

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Are These Systems Serving or Subverting Organization Results?

The Practical Leader

In vertically managed organizations, individual departments work to optimize their own internal efficiency. Goals, objectives, measurements, and career paths move up and down within the narrow, functional “chimney walls.” ” Many organizations induce learned helplessness.

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Managing With a Conscience

Leading Blog

Sonnenberg discusses at length, nine critical success factors that need to be built into the organization: Passion that develops commitment to the organization’s mission, values, and goals. A learning organization that adapts well to change. Devotion to service excellence.

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Learn or Die

Leading Blog

Our ability (and willingness) to learn impacts our personal and business growth, operational excellence, and our capacity to innovate. More than ever, it truly is learn or die. Learning is impacted by our “reflexive ways of thinking, the rigidity of our mental models, and the strength of our ego defense systems.”

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Value-Added Leadership

Strategy Driven

Values, customs, beliefs, goals, objectives, benchmarking. Operations are sound, professional and productive. Learning Organizations Are More Successful. Systems and Processes. Structure, hiring, control, work design, supervision, decisions. Planning, tactics, organizational development. Culture and Mission. Philosophy.

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What we see…

Deming Institute

Maintaining an investment in such a dedicated learning environment for 15+ years is no small feat, especially with the challenges of the idiosyncrasies of the partner nations. The same could be said for a quality goal of 6.3 I also continue to refine my thinking about continuous improvement, including how Toyota operates.