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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. .” ” Many organizations induce learned helplessness.

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Community Management

Lead Change Blog

Okay, but what is a network organization and how and why does it work? The central person route fits with the way organizations operate as formally structured as well as informally driven. So part one of creating a network organization is ensuring online and offline (social) networking is in place. It’s about communities.

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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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Social Media for Better Leadership and Learning

QAspire

Leaders risk relevance quite fast if they continue to operate in an isolated box within a tight hierarchy. Leadership in a connected world is a complex sport. When the complexity around us increases, we need more connected leadership that is constantly making sense of evolving patterns, thinking and mindset.

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Value-Added Leadership

Strategy Driven

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. The size of your company is necessary to do the job demanded. Benefit from Change. Avoid False Idols and Facades.

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Speed Of Learning As The New Competitive Advantage

The Horizons Tracker

It’s created a world in which the speed of learning is a competitive advantage, both for individuals and organizations. Of course, learning organizations are not necessarily a new thing, but their nature has changed. Learning fast and slow. Netflix, for instance, shifted from DVD rental to streaming.

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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.