The Practical Leader

MARCH 13, 2024

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. .”

System 52

System Organization Levitt Root Cause Analysis 52

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. Human judgement is vital to quickly capitalize on new technologies. They cover up problems, setbacks, and missed goals.

IAS 59

IAS Innovation Agility Learning-by-Doing 59

Experience to Lead

APRIL 18, 2022

Consider technology, for example: many employees struggle to disconnect from the office because they get constant notifications from coworkers on their phones. Psychological safety is also a major aspect of well-being (and a necessary part of building a Learning Organization ).

Training 52

Training Team Learning-by-Doing Leadership Development 52

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 5, 2016

Values, customs, beliefs, goals, objectives, benchmarking. You employ state-of-the-art technology and are in the vanguard of your industry. Learning Organizations Are More Successful. Systems and Processes. Structure, hiring, control, work design, supervision, decisions. Planning, tactics, organizational development.

Leadership 50

Leadership Benchmarking Learning-by-Doing Ethics 50

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2018

You might espouse being a learning organization that develops people, but then not give people the time to actually take classes or learn on the job (system-behaviors gap). Strategy and goal setting. Accountability becomes easier to measure and success easier to attain. How are behaviors assessed?

Teamwork 15

Teamwork Consensus Attrition System 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

They remind us that we’ve been here before and that, rather than simply increasing efficiency and cutting costs, emerging technologies can be used to augment our work and raise the quality of life for the population as a whole. Learning to Learn. You Can Learn and Get Work Done at the Same Time. Erika Andersen.

Training 8

Training Management Survey Career 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

Technology is making some of that effort easier. The problem is that technologies for collaboration are improving faster than people’s ability to learn to use them. A year ago we set out to find the answer, drawing on the collective experience of dozens of collaborative communities and learning organizations.

Learning-by-Doing 8

Learning-by-Doing Tools Team Efficiency 8