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Deming on Management: Appreciation for a System

Deming Institute

The Learning Organization: From Vision to Reality by Margaret Wheatley and Peter Senge. The System of Profound Knowledge Applied to Sales and Marketing. Peter Senge on Systems Thinking. Transforming Jet-Hot by Viewing the Organization as a System. The Fifth Discipline by Peter Senge.

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Ask, Learn, Follow Up and Grow

Marshall Goldsmith

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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Why the Problem with Learning Is Unlearning

Harvard Business Review

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. One problem is that they’ve been focused on the wrong thing.

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Are These Systems Serving or Subverting Organization Results?

The Practical Leader

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 Shape of the Meaning Organization

Harvard Business Review

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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LeadershipNow 140: December 2015 Compilation

Leading Blog

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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