Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

Once a company becomes the master of its own universe, seeing new developments in adjacent markets becomes harder. Learn : Strategic leaders continuously reflect on successes and failures to improve performance and decision-making. How quickly do you spot ambiguous threats and opportunities on the periphery of your business?

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Professional Growth and Development : Continuous Learning: Organizations that excel operationally often prioritize continuous learning and development. This commitment to employee growth can be a strong retention tool, as employees value the opportunity to enhance their skills and advance their careers within the organization.

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The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 14, 2020

The forgotten middle is the topic of a new report from Gallup and TrueSpace that explores how companies that are no longer startups manage to successfully grow their business to mid-market status. Learning organizations. Unfortunately, the opposite is true.” ” Supporting growth.

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Deming Institute

DECEMBER 9, 2019

The Learning Organization: From Vision to Reality by Margaret Wheatley and Peter Senge. The System of Profound Knowledge Applied to Sales and Marketing. Transforming Jet-Hot by Viewing the Organization as a System. All models are wrong: reflections on becoming a systems scientist by John Sterman.

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Marshall Goldsmith

MAY 19, 2013

For example, imagine that AT&T Wireless needed to make major changes because of problems in a local market, but before the changes could be made: 1. Sincere asking demonstrates a willingness to learn, a desire to serve, and a humility that can be an inspiration for the entire organization. A task force had to be assigned.

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 10, 2024

A three-percentage-point increase in the company’s share price, equating to an $18 billion surge in market capitalization. By fostering a culture of constructive engagement and continuous learning, organizations can unlock the full potential of inclusive strategy processes. The result? ”

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MAY 25, 2012

Mike also serves as President of the World Institute for Action Learning. He has held a number of senior management, training and marketing positions and has trained managers in over 100 countries since beginning his international experience in Spain in [.].

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Marshall Goldsmith

JANUARY 27, 2014

Many e-learning organizations try to transfer traditional learning methods (classroom training or video) directly into e-learning. Many e-learning tools for leaders are poorly designed. For example, some leaders may need to change behavior; others may need functional training in marketing or finance.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 19, 2023

In today’s tight labor market, it is imperative for us to stay focused on effective onboarding, career mobility and supporting our managers. This includes a move back to in-person onboarding events in many of our local markets. What talent practices do you plan to keep the future of work in shape?

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The Practical Leader

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

In his article “Building a Learning Organization,” he writes, “Experimentation involves the systematic searching for and testing of new knowledge … A study of more than 150 new products concluded that ‘the knowledge gained from failures (is) often instrumental in achieving subsequent successes.’

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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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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 5, 2016

Learn from failures, reframing them as opportunities. Learn to expect, predict, understand and relish success. Study and utilize marketing and business development techniques. Learning Organizations Are More Successful. Behave as a gracious winner. Acquire visionary perception. Offer value-added service.

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Experience to Lead

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Learning Delivery Through Gamification Gaming has really taken the business industry by storm in the past few years. According to the Gamification Global Market Report , the global gamification market grew from $14.87 billion in 2022 to $18.63 billion in 2023.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 17, 2011

You will learn to: Assess and analyze your current situation. Build a learning organization that thrives on change. What trends do you see in the market, and how does your competition relate to them? Nurture leaders at all levels. Proactively identify and resolve potential challenges and roadblocks. Prepare and Adapt.

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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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The Practical Leader

MAY 8, 2024

This was based on a strategic plan that took months of senior management time, market studies, financial analysis, and more expensive consultants. They hired an expensive consulting firm to design and install millions of dollars’ worth of new technologies.

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Deming Institute

DECEMBER 4, 2017

They attempt to let the market dictate pay and take pay out of the performance discussions. And if you re-watch it at different times during the transformation of the management system in your organization you will take away different thoughts that will help with your current thinking.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Inclusivity means different things in different geographies and as a leader in a global organization, addressing issues in the U.S. We must ensure that we drive to a workforce that is reflective of the markets in which we live, work, and serve globally. We want to be a continuous learning organization.

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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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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2018

To infuse change agility into your culture, mid- and front-line leaders — who are closest to the markets, customers, and daily operations — need to be encouraged and incented to see opportunities in what they do every day. History is littered with market leaders who didn’t see the opportunities ahead or take action on them.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2016

It’s a brain when we talk about a learning organization. For example, social media has changed the nature of marketing. (The word corporation comes from the Latin corporare , to combine in one body). It’s a machine when we talk about high-performance. It’s a species when we talk about ecosystems.

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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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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

Then at the end of 2007 the housing market crashed. GE Appliances now has a dedicated learning organization that in 2012 trained 3,000 employees on the fundamentals of the Appliances Performance System. But these suppliers became competitors and ever-harder to work with.

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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. The problem isn’t learning: it’s unlearning. We need to unlearn the push model of marketing and explore alternative models.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

In today's markets, business leaders face a similar challenge: how to pierce through the "the fog of business.". In turn, results were fed back to leaders, who evolved the doctrine to improve performance, enabling a true learning organization. The " fog of war " describes the uncertainty faced by soldiers in the field of battle.

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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 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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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2011

Roughly, I'd suggest that they're strategy, marketing, finance, and the rest of the drear, dismal, passionless stuff that makes most of us snooze through meetings and dread the arrival of Monday morning, dilberting our joint prosperity, perpetually disappointing our ever-more apathetic customers, and gleefully embezzling from the future.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Crucially, this will require public leadership, challenging the prevailing ideology which limits the role of public actors to simply de-risking or facilitating the real heroes — the private sector wealth creators, like risk-loving entrepreneurs — while waiting for the market to find solutions. Second, organizations.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 31, 2015

Disciplines of a Learning Organization: Peter Senge by @Tnvora. You always want to be the market leader. If you can’t say that, shrink the market segment until you can. FT: How to deal with ‘toxic’ workers. A Failure to Act : The Leader’s 5 Most Damaging Inactions by Scott Mautz. SteveTobak.

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