The Learning Organization

Introduction

The strongest companies today have cultures of continuous education — they are investing in helping employees develop the skills they need to succeed in a changing world. This collection of articles from MIT Sloan Management Review lays out why it’s so important for an organization to embrace a learning culture and how some companies are doing it.

From “Who’s Building the Infrastructure for Lifelong Learning?”:

• The traditional concept of a “three-stage life,” made up of distinct periods of full-time education, full-time work, and then full-time retirement, is becoming untenable now that people are living longer and working longer.
• This is particularly true with regard to education: A one-shot investment in learning is insufficient ...