June 2021
Beginner
488 pages
10h 7m
English
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Concept
Arie deGeus and Jack Welch agree: learning is the main if not the only source of sustainable strategic competitive advantage. Organizations who want to avoid becoming ossified bureaucracies must learn how to learn and make it a habit. Without learning systems, companies become dinosaurs. Many scholars including Peter Senge at MIT have worked hard in defining and creating learning organizations.70 Senge argued that there were five key elements in the creation of a learning organization: Personal Mastery, New Mental Models, Team Building, Building Shared Visions, and Systems Thinking. Marcia Conner and I convened a conference at one point in which scholars working on learning organizations shared their insights. The ...