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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. .” People in them become victims of “the system.”

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Fostering a Culture of Innovation and Organizational Learning

The Practical Leader

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. When we master the forces within, we influence the forces without.”

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Value-Added Leadership

Strategy Driven

Demonstrated integrity and dependability assure customers and stakeholders that you will use your size and influence rightly. You employ state-of-the-art technology and are in the vanguard of your industry. Learning Organizations Are More Successful. Operations are sound, professional and productive. Benefit from Change.

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What Kind of Thinker Are You?

Harvard Business Review

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.