Learning for the Long Run: 7 Practices for Sustaining a Resilient Learning Organization

Preface

In the long run, the only sustainable competitive advantage is your organization’s ability to learn faster than the competition.—Peter Senge

I GREW UP AS A MILITARY BRAT, moving from state to state, school to school, and neighborhood to neighborhood throughout my childhood and late teens. Like most kids who experienced that kind of nomadic lifestyle, I developed a certain level of resiliency in facing the unknown, along with an innate curiosity about how new people, places, and things worked. As a member of the military community of dependents, we were all driven—by both necessity and design—to “depend” upon our ability to learn quickly. ...