The Practical Leader

MARCH 13, 2024

Harvard Business School Professor Ted Levitt, a leading research and author in management, marketing, and former editor of Harvard Business Review, said “Early decline and certain death are the fate of companies whose policies are geared totally and obsessively to their own convenience at the total expense of the customer.”

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System Organization Levitt Root Cause Analysis 52

LDRLB

DECEMBER 13, 2011

One of Senge’s (1994) disciplines of a learning organization is the idea of mental models. Perhaps one of the most deeply entrenched mental models in organizational management is the idea of the hierarchical structure. Without such deviance, creativity has a difficult time surviving in the organization.

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Creativity Senge P&L Handbook 84

LDRLB

DECEMBER 13, 2011

One of Senge’s (1994) disciplines of a learning organization is the idea of mental models. Perhaps one of the most deeply entrenched mental models in organizational management is the idea of the hierarchical structure. However, this type of structure often inhibits organization creativity (Williams & Yang, 1999).

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Creativity P&L Senge Handbook 106

LDRLB

JUNE 30, 2010

The major proponent of systems thinking in organizations is Peter Senge, who views systems thinking as a vital component of a learning organization. Leadership evidence-based management senge'

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System Senge Engineering Learning Organization 79

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

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Managing our attention is the key to well being. Self-Directed Learning: A Necessity of Our Times. How to Learn More Effectively. Why Organizations Don’t Learn? 5 Disciplines of a Learning Organization: Peter Senge. Optimize the whole. Leadership: From Arrogance to Humility.

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Self-aware Senge Learning-by-Doing Goleman 128

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. Get buy-in from top department managers. Managing conflict.

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Case Study System Decentralization Management 40

Marshall Goldsmith

MAY 19, 2013

In the “old days,” a person was hired into a position, learned the job, and – usually because of some form of functional proficiency – received a promotion into management. Then, as a manager, this same person could tell a few people what to do. A classic example was the old Bell System.

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Follow-up Learning-by-Doing Wireless Drucker 147

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2018

Learning organizations – Peter Senge’s term — classically focus on intellectually oriented issues such as knowledge and expertise. A focus on continuous learning through inquiry, curiosity and transparency, in place of judgment, certainty and self-protection.

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Senge Energy Learning-by-Doing Environment 20

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. To truly become a networked organization, you need decision principles that create both alignment and autonomy.

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Porter Competitive Advantage Senge Network Economy 8

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 31, 2015

Disciplines of a Learning Organization: Peter Senge by @Tnvora. Four Steps to Manage Your Crucial Conversations by Steve Knight, via @INSEADKnowledge. FT: How to deal with ‘toxic’ workers. A Failure to Act : The Leader’s 5 Most Damaging Inactions by Scott Mautz. How to Orchestrate Your Attitude by @SkipPrichard.

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Senge Market Segmentation Film Self-aware 150

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