The Practical Leader

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Leaders need more speed with changing internal systems, launching new products, and responding to rapidly changing markets. The fastest, most nimble organizations have a ratio of 11:2 — eleven employees pulling the organization forward for every two, dragging on growth and agility. Work is transformed from a job to a joy.

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IAS Innovation Agility Learning-by-Doing 59

The Practical Leader

MARCH 13, 2024

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 systems make it harder to serve customers or serve the servers in the Customer-Partner Chain.

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System Organization Levitt Root Cause Analysis 52

Leading in Context

JUNE 1, 2011

If we use fear-based leadership, bullying, command-and-control leadership, belittling, sabotage or other forms of psychological violence, or allow them to be used by others in our organizations, we create the opposite of a supportive, productive learning organization. LeadinginContext.com.

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Stress Leadership Learning Organization Environment 145

Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 19, 2017

Signs of a Lemming Leader: Use of jargon: Do you use the terms restructuring, high reliability, six sigma, just culture, strategic sourcing, population health, or employee engagement in your organization? To continue to have our product priced competitively so we can increase sales, we need to reduce our costs.

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Six Sigma Storytelling Peer Review Restructuring 209

Leading Blog

APRIL 22, 2015

A Lean organization is essentially a learning organization which makes it especially suited for uncertain times. Lean provides a disciplined structure that allows an organization to focus resources on measureable customer-oriented goals, essentially codifying what has made the company successful. What do you guys think?

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CEO Learning-by-Doing Teamwork Environment 150

QAspire

AUGUST 15, 2016

I once worked in a team that followed a well established process of doing structured retrospectives after every major product release. One of the most important ways to build a learning organization is to have rituals that facilitate reflection, sharing and learning individually as well as collectively.

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Self-aware Team Building Quality Team 70

Strategy Driven

JULY 28, 2019

Executives that use corporate strategy have found that it impacts learning culture through facilitating knowledge sharing throughout all levels of the organization. Therefore, corporate strategy is an essential requirement of learning culture by which knowledge is shared among people.

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Knowledge Management Strategy Hypercompetition Management 50

The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 14, 2020

Whether the media, the financial community or policy makers, attention is heavily weighted towards early-stage startups, and this lack of focus on more sustainable businesses not only harms the labor market for good quality jobs, but also the productivity of the wider economy. Learning organizations.

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Company Short-term Long-term Report 88

HR Digest

AUGUST 13, 2023

Foster a Comfortable and Supportive Work Environment Creating a physical and virtual work environment that promotes comfort, focus, and well-being is essential for employee satisfaction and productivity. Establishing guidelines for respectful and constructive communication to ensure that discussions remain productive and inclusive.

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Environment Positioning Strategy Diversity 52

Experience to Lead

APRIL 18, 2022

This makes sense, as employee wellness has a direct correlation to productivity, profitability and talent retention. Psychological safety is also a major aspect of well-being (and a necessary part of building a Learning Organization ). We should keep in mind that one’s ability to learn is closely connected to their wellness.

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Training Team Learning-by-Doing Leadership Development 52

Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

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. How does responsive design make products more valuable to their customers?

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Chief Technology Officer Competitive Advantage Agility Operations 65

Deming Institute

MARCH 18, 2019

Mike Tveite shared his thoughts on The Role of Learning in Improving Organizations at the 1991 Ohio Quality and Productivity Forum conference. The point Mike makes throughout his presentation, and I agree, is that when you use the PDSA cycle well that is what will happen; you will learn and find new questions to explore.

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Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

In any learning organization, someone or some group must have the “big picture” in mind and work to ensure that the parts of the system—humans in a socio-cultural environment like schools—are working interdependently to achieve the system’s aim.

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System Senge Management Deming 66

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 5, 2016

You’re in the best business-industry, produce a good product-service and always lead the pack. Operations are sound, professional and productive. Learning Organizations Are More Successful. Customers get what they cannot really get elsewhere. Running the business. Benefit from Change. Avoid False Idols and Facades.

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Leadership Benchmarking Learning-by-Doing Ethics 50

Deming Institute

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

In between, Motorola was working to unveil its Six Sigma Quality efforts and James Womack, Daniel Roos, and Daniel Jones were in the 4 th year of a highly productive 5-year study on the future of the automobile. At home, we purchased our first Toyota product, a pick-up truck, after growing disappointment with 2 U.S.

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Six Sigma Deming System Quality 37

Strategy Driven

JUNE 17, 2011

You will learn to: Assess and analyze your current situation. Build a learning organization that thrives on change. Innovate and build products and services customers love to use. How well does your product accommodate the customers’ needs? What can you learn by observing their use of your products or services?

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Learning-by-Doing Industry Follow-up Skills 62

Deming Institute

MARCH 2, 2017

That is the wrong sequence, the right sequence is quality and then time and then cost and then new products. So actually we are making people at the same time we are making products, which is a phrase you will often hear from Toyota.

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 28, 2019

Eliminating defects can’t help customers if the product or service does not meet their requirements. (See This highlights a weakness of defining quality only as the absence of defects and the limitations of zero-defects programs that don’t define what does satisfy the customer. See Symphony of Profound Knowledge, pp.

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Deming System Sample Analysis 44

Strategy Driven

JUNE 24, 2011

You will learn to: Assess and analyze your current situation. Build a learning organization that thrives on change. Innovate and build products and services customers love to use. Nurture leaders at all levels. Proactively identify and resolve potential challenges and roadblocks. Improve communication at all levels.

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Energy Follow-up Industry Learning-by-Doing 66

N2Growth Blog

JULY 21, 2016

Learning Organization – A learning organization is one that acquires knowledge and facilitates the learning of its team members, in order to continuously improve, innovate, and transform. This information is delivered as a by-product of the work performed by employees.

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Strategic Planning Network Organization Project Reference 175

Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

As a leader, you can decrease discomfort and increase productivity by increasing your awareness of personal style and organizational culture and how they interrelate. When leaders misunderstand differences in style, they typically hire workers like themselves, creating a default culture where difference causes problems.

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Diversity Teamwork Bottom-up Learning-by-Doing 309

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). One organization might identify teamwork behavior as “collaborates effectively through helping others.”

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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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Taylorism Taylor Newsletter Resources 80

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2018

Look for boundary-spanning partnerships: As work becomes more complex, it takes teams and cross-boundary collaborations to build products, attract customers, and achieve results. For example, Maureen is a mid-level learning and development leader at a global tech company that’s growing rapidly through acquisition.

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Agility Shaw Learning-by-Doing Efficiency 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2014

And shortly thereafter (and not long before he died in 2005), Drucker declared that increasing the productivity of knowledge workers was “the most important contribution management needs to make in the 21st century.”. Every organization will have to learn to innovate” on a constant basis, Drucker wrote.

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Drucker Survey Learning-by-Doing Knowledge Management 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

Immelt asked why production should be put in old factories in a union environment. We can have engineering work more closely with production. If the goal was to leapfrog the competition in every product line while revitalizing U.S. The $1 billion plan envisioned 11 new product platforms in six different manufacturing sites.

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Insourcing Operations Offshoring Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

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. What can be done to close that gap?

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Learning-by-Doing Tools Team Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2016

We design products, experiences, and even business models. It’s a brain when we talk about a learning organization. The response is always a version of “What are we going to do about it?” ” When’s the last time someone said, “How are we going to think about it?” But something is missing.

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Team Construction Learning-by-Doing Agility 14

Curious Cat

MARCH 10, 2015

The city begins a quality and productivity (QP) improvement program. We are a learning organization. We share and teach others what we have learned. If we continuously improve, learn, and teach others, we will sustain our high quality progress into the future. Evaluating. Evaluation helps us know what to improve.

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Case Study System Decentralization Management 40

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2011

In their new book, Beyond Performance: How Great Organizations Build Ultimate Competitive Advantage , Scott Keller and Colin Price identify nine factors that are critical to organizational health: Direction, Accountability, Motivation, Leadership, Coordination & Control, External Orientation, Culture & Climate, Capabilities, Innovation & Learning.

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Organization Supply Chain Decentralization Bureaucracy 9

Miles Anthony Smith

AUGUST 7, 2018

Tim Magwood ( Leadership Coach & Musician ) I would say being an “agile learner” Things are moving fast in our VUCA world and we need more leaders who are learning WITH their people and helping to create deliberate learning organizations. I just read Multipliers this morning. I am sure you know this book.

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Leadership Self-aware Learning-by-Doing Open-book 102

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2015

But today, tighter budgets, flatter organizations, a heavy workload, and too many direct reports often leave managers without the time — and sometimes without the skills — to shoulder the responsibility of being coach and mentor. And yet, this function remains critical to the long-term health and productivity of the organization.

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Management Mentor Content Training 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

The result: an organization in which ideas and people flourish and new products, technologies, and directions are freely generated. Entangled Talents: a 21st-century Social Learning System. New lines of business created via the innovation engine account for 20% of the company's total revenue.

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Management McKinsey Letter Retail 11

HR Digest

AUGUST 10, 2020

With the world on lockdown, organizations everywhere have had to rethink how they operate. But in the midst of the crisis, some have discovered something unexpected: productivity has gone up, not down. The result is an organization that’s not only fairer, but also more effective. It doesn’t have to be this way.

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Organization Crisis Diversity Long-term 98

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2011

It's well past time to begin imagining an organization of a radically different kind — one that takes a quantum leap beyond strategy, marketing, and finance into a novel galaxy of unexplored, untapped economic possibilities. Here's what I think that organization — call it the Meaning Organization — might look it.

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Organization Finance Senge Long-term 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2012

But they're not failing fast to learn. It's definitely not a learning organization. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan's organization had been structured around health insurance products. Recently they're failing faster; the three- to five-year cycle is moving to two to three years. They're just failing more.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Ever since the publication of Peter Senge’s The Fifth Discipline , 25 years ago, companies have sought to become “learning organizations” that continually transform themselves. They look beyond controlling the pipe that delivers a product and instead build platforms that enable others to create value.

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