A Holistic Approach to Lessons Learned

Foreword

“It may metaphorically be said that natural selection is daily and hourly scrutinizing, throughout the world, the slightest variations; rejecting those that are bad, preserving and adding up all that are good; silently and insensibly working, whenever and wherever opportunity offers, at the improvement of each organic being…” (Charles Darwin)

Darwin called the principle, by which each variation is preserved if useful, natural selection. Nature, then, was the first to implement the process of learning and debriefing.

Of course, the process of learning and debriefing is nothing new to human civilization. Man and mankind have always been constantly involved in learning and improving; using what worked and searching for alternatives for ...