Lead on Purpose

AUGUST 28, 2017

All of … Continue reading → Knowledge Leadership Learning Uncategorized application culture discovery improvement JTBD learners learning organizationAmazon, Intuit, Airbnb, Disney, FedEx and Uber…what do these companies have in common? They know their customers. They don’t just know about their customers, they know why their customers ‘hire’ them and their products to do specific jobs.

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QAspire

DECEMBER 7, 2015

If there is one book that has influenced my business thinking the most, it is Peter Senge’s “ The Fifth Discipline – The Art and Practice of Learning Organization ” and I have referred to it many times over past years on this blog. 5 Key Lessons From Learning Organizations.

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Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

presented a session at our 2016 annual conference titled: Applying Deming’s Philosophy and Theory to Create the Foundation for a Learning Organization. Acknowledge that the transformation of the organization will require moving through more than 1 phase.

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QAspire

JANUARY 26, 2011

Jack Welch said, “An organizations ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the greatest competitive advantage.” Continuous learning and its respective implementation to generate desired business outcomes is at the core of successful organizations. Peter Senge defined a learning organization as the one “where people continually expand their capacity to create the

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QAspire

JANUARY 9, 2011

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer 5 Key Lessons From Learning Organizations Problems, challenges and inefficiencies (in one way or the other) are a part of any organization. How organizations deal with them makes all the difference. In my career so far, I have (broadly) seen two kinds of organizations. The second type of organizations are what we call “ learning organizations ”. Have you seen such organizations?

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You're Not the Boss of Me

SEPTEMBER 7, 2014

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.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

FEBRUARY 2, 2014

The theme: Creating a Learning Organization:? Leading-Edge Strategies for Employee Development And here’s the description of the conference: What is the most important asset to your organization? Strategic Government Resources (SGR) just completed its January, 2014 Conference. It’s not about having the latest and greatest gadgets (although that’s always nice too), but your PEOPLE are […]. Randy''s blog entries

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 6, 2015

Constant learning is critical to staying on the exponential curve. Read these quotes carefully: If you’re running a big company today and are not aware of these technologies—not to mention how they might impact your company—you are simply not doing your job. John Seely Brown and John Hagel have observed that although all of our […]. Randy''s blog entries

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First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Now… Read More In a World of Perpetual Newbies, we all must join the Perpetual Learners Group – (insight from Kevin Kelly’s The Inevitable, & thoughts on learning organizations). In this era of “becoming,” everyone becomes a newbie. Worse, we will be newbies forever. That should keep us humble. That bears repeating. All of us—every one of us—will be endless newbies in the future simply trying to keep up.

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Orrin Woodward

JANUARY 11, 2011

“Teachable Moments” are one of the quickest ways to create a learning organization, helping the entire team to learn from the many mistakes on the journey to excellence. The attitude of learning organizations is, if we are going to make mistakes anyway, let’s go ahead and learn from them. Learning organizations improve daily without playing the blame game or passing the buck.

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QAspire

FEBRUARY 19, 2017

As an organization grows, managing the flow demands work items to move from one team/department to another. Peter Senge , in his book “ The Fifth Discipline – The Art and Practice of Learning Organization ” outlines 7 organizational learning disabilities.

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QAspire

APRIL 2, 2017

A team’s ability to learn quickly is at the heart of adapting to constant changes. In fact, it seems that constant learning is the only key to agility as a team and organization. On this blog, we have visually explored various facets of creating a learning organization.

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Leaders. Better. Brighter.

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

The Glowan Consulting Group L3 Blog Home About Glowan Subscribe to feed ‹ Best places to work generate centripetal force • Resilient Leadership At All Levels › Social Learning = Organically Sloppy. Call it social learning. Leaders. Better. Brighter.™

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QAspire

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Organizations that don’t learn constantly, adapt continuously and execute relentlessly are more likely to be disrupted by constant change and competition. We have to go beyond formal learning methods if we have to truly build learning organizations in a rapidly changing world.

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LeadStrategic

MAY 30, 2018

I think a lot about learning. I suppose that is because learning is central to what I do as a professor. I wonder how people learn. I am intrigued by the different levels of learning. […]. Leading Others learning learning organization

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You're Not the Boss of Me

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

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.

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LeadStrategic

JUNE 19, 2018

Brian Herbert, son of science fiction author Frank Herbert and a prolific author of science fiction himself, once said: “The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingness […]. Leading Organizations diversity learning organization organizational learning

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LeadStrategic

JUNE 13, 2018

Leading Organizations learning organization organizational culture psychological safetyIt happened during a workshop I was leading on creativity for a board of trustees at a small college. A suggestion came up—and I don’t even remember what it was—that was new. It was something […].

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QAspire

OCTOBER 26, 2015

One of the crucial leadership skills for today and future is ability to learn constantly from various high quality sources, synthesizing information and collaborating with a community to get a better grasp of the constantly changing reality.

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Deming Institute

OCTOBER 15, 2018

The focus of Ingenium is “restoring joy and meaning to learning.” Instead of trying to force compliance from kids they seek to understand the underlying conditions that lead to behavior that is not effective and change the system to allow kids to do what they naturally do: learn.

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QAspire

JANUARY 17, 2016

Learning, the real learning, happens…. When you are intentional about learning When you are driven by an intrinsic need to advance and not only by external triggers and rewards. Leading the Self Learning Sketch Notes learning learning and development Learning Organization

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Linked 2 Leadership

JUNE 26, 2013

Creating a culture of feedback is vital to any organization. A Partnership for Learning The best way to champion feedback is approach […]. Authentic Leadership Leadership Lessons Learned Leading & Developing Other Leaders Leading Change Professional Development Servant Leadership Values-Based Leadership Feedback leadership learning organization Giving and receiving feedback is something every leader should be comfortable with.

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Linked 2 Leadership

AUGUST 8, 2013

This phenomenon was no more apparent than in the area of organizational learning. Leading & Developing Other Leaders Leading Change Organizational Health leadership learning Learning organization Management Organizational Learning After 25 plus years developing and facilitating training for clients in a wide variety of industries large and small, a consistent theme I see is that there is a lot of management and very little real leadership going on.

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QAspire

OCTOBER 16, 2013

Language allowed us to create stories and human beings learned through stories shared in a social context. Learning was social in nature. Then, literature evolved and allowed many people to learn from the same sources. Because learning is never static.

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Coaching Tip

JANUARY 22, 2015

Good leaders have a strong effect on the success of an organization or business. What my research has revealed is that leaders of truly adaptive organizations possess a unique set of skills and thought processes, and simply being strong and successful is not an effective basis for leading and shaping an innovative organization," Dr. Fiona Kerr says. For a lot of people, these are skills and qualities that can be learned. These organizations wanted to change.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Here is an article written by William C. Taylor for BNET (January 4, 2011), The CBS Interactive Business Network. To check out an abundance of valuable resources and obtain a free subscription to one or more of the BNET newsletters, please click here. * * * Ever since the publication, nearly two decades ago, of [.].

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Linked 2 Leadership

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

There’s an unusual looking building I often walk past in New York at 11 Madison Avenue. And it got me thinking recently… All Base, No Stride. Today the stout-looking building in the picture above is home to Credit Suisse’s World Headquarters.

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Leadership Freak

MARCH 18, 2012

Courage Failure Humility Insecurity Leading Managing Marks of leaders Personal Growth Strengths Trust weaknesses bob burg Growth Leadership Leadership Development learning organizations Management Organizational Development organizational success side benefitGuess what insecure leaders do when one of their weaknesses comes to light? They immediate explain why it isn’t a weakness and how it’s not that bad. I see it all the time.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 15, 2012

Teaming: How Organizations Learn, Innovate, and Compete in the Knowledge Economy Amy C. Edmondson Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Imprint (2012) Why and how the most valuable organizational learning occurs: through teams Amy Edmondson characterizes “teaming” as “teamwork on the fly.”

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Deming Institute

MARCH 2, 2017

Dan’s presentation includes a nice discussion of the importance of understanding the organization as a system (in his words the value streams). Without an understanding of the overall system organizations frequently optimize components that in turn sub-optimize the whole.

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LDRLB

JANUARY 19, 2015

Ed Hess is the author of Learn or Die and a host of other great books. His current research focuses on innovation systems and organizational learning cultures, behaviors, and processes. In this interview, we talk about who to use science to build a leading-edge learning organization.

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Deming Institute

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

This is really a great talk that does a great job of illustrating the importance of understanding how our brains work (psychology) and how we think (and risks in what we think we know – theory of knowledge) and how it relates to managing our organizations.

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LDRLB

JANUARY 19, 2015

Ed Hess is the author of Learn or Die and a host of other great books. His current research focuses on innovation systems and organizational learning cultures, behaviors, and processes. In this interview, we talk about who to use science to build a leading-edge learning organization.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 25, 2012

Mike also serves as President of the World Institute for Action Learning. Yeo Stanford University Press United Nations Development Program World Institute for Action Learning XeroxMichael Marquardt is Professor of Human Resource Development and International Affairs at George Washington University. He has held a number of senior management, training and marketing positions and has trained managers in over 100 countries since beginning his international experience in Spain in [.].

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 9, 2012

Breakthrough Problem Solving with Action Learning: Concepts and Cases Michael J. Yeo Stanford Business Books/Imprint of Stanford University Press (2012) How and why action learning “is truly the most powerful problem-solving tool of the 21st century” Those who have read any of Michael Marquardt’s previously published books (notably Optimizing the Power [.]. Marquardt Microsoft Optimizing the Power of Action Learning Roland K.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 15, 2011

Bob's blog entries "If you think education is expensive [comma] try ignorance" “failure” “success has many parents but failure is always an orphan” “total learning organization” Derek Bok Edison research center in Menlo Park (New Jersey) Peter Senge The Fifth Discipline Thomas Edison we always “pass lots of failures” on the so-called “road” to ultimate success When and why a “failure” is an “orphan

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Erika Andersen

JULY 17, 2013

communicating Community learning Organizations Thinking Work brand entrepreneurs exit money passion profit rich richard branson value I read a great many posts and articles by and about entrepreneurs. Lately it has seemed to me that there are two basic entrepreneurial mindsets.

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Erika Andersen

JANUARY 30, 2013

communicating Community learning Organizations people Work business evolution growth high performance nature teamI’ve realized lately that there’s something I love no matter what form it takes: growth.

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Erika Andersen

JULY 15, 2012

Effective leaders listen to learn and understand rather than to rebut and overpower. Books learning Organizations Weblogs Work change-friendly leadership Dr. Rodger Dean Duncan leadership relationships trust

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Erika Andersen

JULY 31, 2013

4) As practiced in most organizations, strategy IS boring. learning Organizations people Thinking Work being strategic boring clarity complicated engaging forbes goals Michael Porter real life results strategic strategy vision

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Management Excellence

JANUARY 25, 2012

Few would argue that a nimble, quick-to-learn and quick-to-adapt organization is a bad thing. Why then has the approach to strategy and the notion of “strategic planning” in so many organizations remained mired in a 1960’s kind of static, top-down event-focused model? Here are six ideas to transform your organization's approach to and effectiveness with strategy.

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Erika Andersen

AUGUST 12, 2012

Leading People learning Organizations Work Bil Ringle business-building entrepreneurs value wealthI met Bill Ringle when he asked me to participate in his interview series My Quest for the Best. He asked such good questions that I offered to return the favor!

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Erika Andersen

JUNE 3, 2012

Hmmm… communicating Community learning Organizations administrative team high performance Minneapolis Proteus team

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