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Collaborative learning: mining the gems to create a true learning organization

CQ Net - Management skills for everyone!

But as we already entered the knowledge economy, recognized by its rapid technological advances, globalization, and extended communications networking and infrastructure, we cannot help to become increasingly aware of rapidly changing trends that kick dust in the eyes of the rat-race that once was.

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A Total Re-Thinking of What it Means to be a Learning Organization – (Insight from Exponential Organizations)

First Friday Book Synopsis

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. Constant learning is critical to staying on the exponential curve. Randy''s blog entries'

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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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Fostering a Culture of Innovation and Organizational Learning

The Practical Leader

In their study, Innovation by All, Great Place to Work concluded organizations with high-trust cultures involve and engage many more employees than most organizations in the innovation process. Human judgement is vital to quickly capitalize on new technologies. Front-line employees are central to that acceleration.

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5 Steps To Develop A Learning Culture At Work

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. Netflix, for instance, shifted from DVD rental to streaming.

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Community Management

Lead Change Blog

So part one of creating a network organization is ensuring online and offline (social) networking is in place. In other words, facilitation in terms of technology and resources so the organization can get out of people’s way, so they can do what they need to do. Why would you want to do that? Then the community managers.

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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. The way we think about experience has changed. Value chains have changed.