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Learning in the Thick of It
The Idea in Brief Like many managers, you probably conduct after-action reviews (AARs) to extract lessons from key projects and apply them to others. But in most companies, AARs don?t fulfill their promise: Scrapped projects, poor investments, and failed safety measures repeat themselves?while...
Tags: Garvin, Team Management, Performance Management, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management, BNET Editorial, AAR, Team, Lesson
Articles 2007-09-24

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HBR IdeaCast: Learning Organizations
If your company's rate of learning isn't greater than the rate of change in your industry, you will fall behind. David Garvin and Amy Edmonson talk about how companies can create, acquire, interpret, and retain knowledge, then modify their behavior to respond to those knowledge insights. They also use examples...
Tags: Strategy, BNET staff, Learning Organization, HBR IdeaCast, knowledge
Blog posts 2008-03-10
Tools for Assessing Your Organization's Learning Capabilities
Every organization must learn or die -- learn about itself, the competition, the market, the world. A new Harvard Business Review package on organizational learning wraps together an article, assessment tool and video interview to help you judge your own organization's learning capabilities. What does a...
Tags: Strategy, Leadership, Sean Silverthorne
Blog posts 2008-03-03
Building a Learning Organization
The Idea in Brief As we all know, to stay ahead of competitors, companies must constantly enhance the way they do business. But more performance-improvement programs fail than succeed. That's because many managers don't realize that...
Tags: David A. Garvin, hypotheses, knowledge, Boeing Co., team, food, industry, environment, tool
Articles 2008-04-01
Your Company's Secret Change Agents
The Idea in Brief Some business problems--lackluster performance, escalating costs, interdepartmental conflict--persist no matter how hard companies try to fix them. Why? Most leaders impose top-down change tactics--importing outside experts or "best" practices, which never...
Tags: Richard Tanner Pascale, Jerry Sternin, Hewlett-Packard Co., team, recruiting, talent, agent, leader, game, performance, strategy, sales, computer
Articles 2008-02-13
Facing Ambiguous Threats
The Idea in Brief Are you dismissing small signals that may portend danger to your business? Ignore these ambiguous threats, and you could imperil your company. Pharmaceutical giant Merck discovered this firsthand when it downplayed early unclear...
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Articles 2008-03-10
Deals Without Delusions
The Idea in Brief Half of all acquiring companies pay more for target firms than they're worth. Often it's because of executives' mental biases: Their interest in a deal keeps them from being objective about its value....
Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Dan Lovallo, Patrick Viguerie, Robert Uhlaner, John Horn, antidote, M&A, diligence, integration, Six Sigma, revenue, valuation, best practice, compensation, game, performance, strategy
Articles 2008-04-01
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