Leading Blog

JANUARY 27, 2012

Effective, focused and consistent internal communication to set priorities that focus the organization’s efforts and people on the resources that provide the greatest potential return. A learning organization that adapts well to change. Devotion to service excellence. Responds with speed.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 8, 2019

Okay, but what is a network organization and how and why does it work? The central person route fits with the way organizations operate as formally structured as well as informally driven. It’s about communities. Organizational communities arise via two nodes: central persons and professional content.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Our ability (and willingness) to learn impacts our personal and business growth, operational excellence, and our capacity to innovate. More than ever, it truly is learn or die. Learning is impacted by our “reflexive ways of thinking, the rigidity of our mental models, and the strength of our ego defense systems.”

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You're Not the Boss of Me

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

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. This speaks to the dangers of clinging to, and operating from, narrow perspectives.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 25, 2016

Ray Stata, former chairman of Analog Devices and a pioneer in creating learning organizations, said: “The rate at which individuals and organizations learn may become the only sustainable competitive advantage.” ” (More background on that quote here.)

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 19, 2017

Signs of a Lemming Leader: Use of jargon: Do you use the terms restructuring, high reliability, six sigma, just culture, strategic sourcing, population health, or employee engagement in your organization? If you are trying to make your operation more efficient, then say so. “To The trappings: Look in your driveway.

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QAspire

JUNE 19, 2019

Leaders risk relevance quite fast if they continue to operate in an isolated box within a tight hierarchy. Leadership in a connected world is a complex sport. When the complexity around us increases, we need more connected leadership that is constantly making sense of evolving patterns, thinking and mindset.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 19, 2014

The Marshall Goldsmith Thinkers50 Video Blog is now operational. ” Leadership guru Jim Kouzes called the book, “The essential handbook for all those who are trusted advisors to aspiring leaders.” ” Published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers Inc., Buy copies to share with colleagues and join in the celebration.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

Especially in uncertain times, “companies must tilt more toward strategic leadership than toward operational excellence.” Learn : Strategic leaders continuously reflect on successes and failures to improve performance and decision-making. The trick is to deliver short-term results while securing long-term viability.

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The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 14, 2020

The researchers analyzed around 2,500 businesses, each of whom was at least three years old, but had not yet reached mid-market status (defined as having over $10m in revenue), to better understand the distinct operating conditions that support growth to this level. Learning organizations.

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Marshall Goldsmith

MAY 19, 2013

Many organizations have historically operated on the “there is one best way” school of management. Sincere asking demonstrates a willingness to learn, a desire to serve, and a humility that can be an inspiration for the entire organization. A classic example was the old Bell System.

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

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. What differentiates the Live Enterprise from other operating models?

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HR Digest

AUGUST 10, 2020

With the world on lockdown, organizations everywhere have had to rethink how they operate. Unfortunately, this well-intentioned approach dooms virtual learning to be a sort of “second-best modality”—tedious, boring, and ineffective. It doesn’t have to be this way.

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 23, 2019

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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The Practical Leader

MAY 8, 2024

He was clearly operating on the assumption that if they knew better, they’d do better. Building transformation into the company’s operating rhythm. They had to get costs down. He said they all needed to work harder and smarter. Service and quality levels had to rise. Explicitly managing organizational energy.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

You just finished reading Ten Questions that Motivate Engagement and Drive Greater Accountability !

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The Practical Leader

MARCH 13, 2024

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.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 5, 2016

Operations are sound, professional and productive. Learning Organizations Are More Successful. You’re in the best business-industry, produce a good product-service and always lead the pack. Customers get what they cannot really get elsewhere. Running the business. Benefit from Change. Avoid False Idols and Facades.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

After all, it stands to reason that we do our best work when we are operating from our strengths. Share this: 4 Comments Filed under Leading Teams , Uncategorized Tagged as communication , Leadership , Team Learning , Teambuilding ← Leaders and the Learning Organization Taming the Inner Mule → Like Be the first to like this post.

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Deming Institute

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Maintaining an investment in such a dedicated learning environment for 15+ years is no small feat, especially with the challenges of the idiosyncrasies of the partner nations. I also continue to refine my thinking about continuous improvement, including how Toyota operates. Yet, what can be said of the limits to standardization?

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Curious Cat

MARCH 10, 2015

Field operations are decentralized into four areas of the city – central, south, east, north and west. Operating the department based on the Principles of Quality Leadership. We are a learning organization. We share and teach others what we have learned. At this point, only the EPD has a building. Evaluating.

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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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Deming Institute

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

He discusses habits and that “95% of the time we operate on auto-pilot.” I think the root cause of many of the problems in our organizations are a contradiction between how we do what we do and our beliefs about how we do what we do.

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Deming Conference Learning-by-Doing Ethics 28

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

To spread the new culture more broadly, management decided to form another cross-functional team (a "Little Big Room") to define tenets about how they would operate. A team of 16 curious, honest, and bold people — including production operators and leaders from HR, engineering, purchasing, operations, and training — were selected.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2017

I’ll fast-forward through the next decade, when Garvin, trained in operations, helped to answer the question much of America was obsessed with at the time: How Japanese automakers could make higher-quality, more-reliable cars than Americans, while charging less for them.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Despite the amount they invest in corporate learning, organizations continue to struggle to connect these programs with the day-to-day work of strategy execution. Learning departments are frequently part of the problem. Like many parts of large organizations, they are captive to a rich and debilitating status quo.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

Special Operations teams trying to get the most use out of their helicopters, assets with high demand and limited supply. So Special Operations went with a third option. Doctrine provided the many units spread around the battlefield with a shared framework in which they could operate. Consider one example from U.S.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2014

Reinventing Organizations : A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness by Frederic Laloux Based on three years of research, Reinventing Organizations describes the emergence of a new management paradigm, a radically more soulful, purposeful and powerful ways to structure and run any organization.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2016

It’s a brain when we talk about a learning organization. As strategy and planning give way to execution and operations, those with a more micro orientation take the lead. (The word corporation comes from the Latin corporare , to combine in one body). It’s a machine when we talk about high-performance.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2014

In a knowledge economy, top-down direction is particularly detrimental because employees are bound to know more than their supervisors do about the specialized fields in which they operate. Build true learning organizations. “If They may also know more about the customer—his needs and desires. They have to have autonomy.”.

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Drucker Survey Learning-by-Doing Knowledge Management 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2012

A few years ago, the chief operating officer launched a customer quality initiative to improve six core processes and assigned executives to "own" each process. But they're not failing fast to learn. It's definitely not a learning organization. How can you break this cycle? They're just failing more.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

That may seem obvious in the age of the crowd, but it's far from operational. The LOFT (Learning Organization for Tomorrow) program is a collection of initiatives and tools designed to promote locally-grown insights and practices and to turn shop floor workers into peer coaches (some 810 volunteers at 102 sites in 40 countries).

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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. Look ahead and see opportunity: Most leaders view this as the role of senior executives.

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Agility Shaw Learning-by-Doing Efficiency 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. The problem isn’t learning: it’s unlearning. In our era of digital disruption, this goal is more important than ever.

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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

MAY 28, 2015

So I reached out to Brandon Webb, an innovative SEAL trainer/educator, and CEO of Force12 Media for real-world perspective on what industry could learn from a special operations sensibility. Getting better at getting better is a vital organizing principle for learning organizations. That scares me. Lead by Example.

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Training Education Incentives Leadership 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Strangely, most CEOs seem resigned to this fact, since few, if any, have tackled the challenge of innovation with the sort of zeal and persistence they’ve devoted to the pursuit of operational efficiency. And finally, large organizations are emotionally insipid.

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