You're Not the Boss of Me

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

Peter Senge Peter Senge is one of my favourite Thought Leaders. 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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Learning Organization Senge Organization Learning-by-Doing 56

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

JUNE 25, 2012

I nstead of focusing solely on where they are taking their organization, leaders are better served to first think about what kind of organization they are building. Since the 1990’s when Peter Senge popularized the notion of “learning organizations,” there has been a lot of discussion about attributes of great companies.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

AUGUST 12, 2013

Peter Senge wrote in his groundbreaking book, The Fifth Discipline , “When we see that to learn we must be willing to look foolish, to let another teach us, learning doesn’t always look so good anymore…Only with the support and fellowship of another can we face the dangers of learning meaningful things.”.

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Mentor Senge Customer Loyalty Open-book 162

QAspire

JANUARY 5, 2015

The cost of solving these problems after they grow big is often very high – sometimes, as high as losing a customer or your key team members! The key is to see (and let your team see) those repercussions through the understanding of the system. Constant Learning: Learning feeds proactive leadership.

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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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Marshall Goldsmith

MAY 19, 2013

Vital sources of information will include present and potential customers, suppliers, team members, cross-divisional peers, direct reports, managers, other members of the organization, researchers, and thought leaders (see Figure 23.1). Peter Senge has written extensively about the future importance of the learning organization.

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Follow-up Learning-by-Doing Wireless Drucker 147

Curious Cat

MARCH 10, 2015

Step 1: Educate and inform everyone in the organization about the vision, the goals, and Quality Leadership. Begin discussion with top management team and train them. Share feedback with the chief and his management team. This begins at the top with the chief and the chief’s management team. Sustain the effort!

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Case Study System Decentralization Management 40

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2018

Learning organizations – Peter Senge’s term — classically focus on intellectually oriented issues such as knowledge and expertise. Instead, it may be more effective to focus on creating a culture of growth. A culture is simply the collection of beliefs on which people build their behavior.

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Senge Energy Learning-by-Doing Environment 17

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

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. Many of the paradigms we learned in school and built our careers on are either incomplete or ineffective. Mark Bonchek.

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