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Peter Senge: How to Overcome Learning Disabilities in Organizations

QAspire

As an organization grows, managing the flow demands work items to move from one team/department to another. Peter Senge , in his book “ The Fifth Discipline – The Art and Practice of Learning Organization ” outlines 7 organizational learning disabilities. These disabilities operate despite the best effort of bright, committed people.

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Peter Senge on the Creation of a Post-Industrial Theory and Practice of Education

Deming Institute

From Tacoma, we headed to our last stop, San Francisco, where the timing worked well for me to attend a second conference, “Teaching for Intelligence,” with Peter Senge , author of The Fifth Discipline , as the opening keynote speaker. 20 to 25 years of efforts to transform the systemic nature of business operations…. Gold stars.

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Top 16 Books for Human Resource and Talent Management Executives

Chart Your Course

Every HR, OD professional, and management consultant should at the very least be aware of their existence, if not well-versed in their ideas and theories. In one of the defining management studies carried out in the 90s, Collins and his team complied a list of 1,435 companies in search of those special few that could truly be called “great.”

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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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Book Review: Sacred Cows Make the Best Burgers

LDRLB

However, as an organizational scholar, I am fascinated by how some organizations managed to successfully lead their people through change and others fail miserably. When reading the book, my mind kept going back to Senge’s concept of mental models. I am fascinated by change. Well, not really.

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Leaders and the Learning Organization

You're Not the Boss of Me

Peter Senge. Peter Senge is one of my favourite Thought Leaders. There is a proverb that says, “If the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail” This speaks to the dangers of clinging to, and operating from, narrow perspectives. Such declarations usually produce only cynicism. What do you think?

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Book Review: Sacred Cows Make the Best Burgers

LDRLB

However, as an organizational scholar, I am fascinated by how some organizations managed to successfully lead their people through change and others fail miserably. When reading the book, my mind kept going back to Senge’s concept of mental models. I am fascinated by change. Well, not really.

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