Learning Organizations

Chapter 4

Nurturing Learning Organizations

The transfer of knowledge within a learning organization is a complex task. However, taken seriously and with the support of senior management it can be accomplished. Not that I have met any learning organization in its full sense; I haven’t and I don’t think I ever will. But such generative learning condition is to be cultivated, even though you may never be able to become a true learning organization. Achieving such a level is like achieving the full sense of personal humility, or even Zen. Once you believe and affirm you have reached it, you would have just missed it.

To succeed in shaping your organization’s future, you must develop an organization that learns well, efficiently and constantly. ...