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Are These Systems Serving or Subverting Organization Results?

The Practical Leader

An organization’s systems are the outcroppings of the organization’s bedrock values and culture. In production environments, many systems are obstacles to improving productivity, safety, or quality. ” Many organizations induce learned helplessness.

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The Live Enterprise Model

Eric Jacobson

Authors Jeff Kavanaugh’s and Rafee Tarafdar’s new book, The Live Enterprise , is all about how to create a continuously evolving and learning organization. They explain that the very nature of organizations has come under pressure. What differentiates the Live Enterprise from other operating models?

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Value-Added Leadership

Strategy Driven

You’re in the best business-industry, produce a good product-service and always lead the pack. Operations are sound, professional and productive. You employ state-of-the-art technology and are in the vanguard of your industry. Learning Organizations Are More Successful. Running the business.

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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.

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The Winners of the Management 2.0 Challenge: How They Are Reinventing Management

Harvard Business Review

Challenge , asking how could technology inform and enable management innovation. That may seem obvious in the age of the crowd, but it's far from operational. The result: an organization in which ideas and people flourish and new products, technologies, and directions are freely generated.