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In Praise of the Incomplete Leader

Have you ever feigned confidence to superiors or reports? Hidden the fact you were confused by the latest business results or blindsided by a competitor's move? If so, you've bought into the myth of the complete...

Tags: Harvard Business Review, Management, Leader, Leadership, In Brief, Deborah Ancona, Thomas W. Malone, Wanda J. Orlikowski, Peter M. Senge

Articles 2008-05-07

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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: Productivity, Organization, Tool, Sean Silverthorne, Management, Strategy

Blog posts 2008-03-03

Innovating Our Way to the Next Industrial Revolution

Innovating Our Way to the Next Industrial Revolution; Peter M. Senge and Goran Carstedt; MIT Sloan Management Review, Winter 2001, pp. 24 38. This article presents the philosophy and recent activities of The SoL Society for Organizational Learning Sustainability Consortium, which was established by BP and Interface and now...

Tags: FINANCE, Ford Motor Co., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Xerox Corp.

Research articles 2001-05-01

In Praise of the Incomplete Leader

In Praise of the Incomplete Leader; Deborah Ancona, Thomas W. Malone, Wanda J. Orlikowski, and Peter M. Senge; Harvard Business Review, Feb. 2007, pp. 92-100. "It's time to end the myth of the complete leader: the flawless person at the top who's got it all figured out," write these...

Tags: Harvard Business Review, leader, Leadership, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Research articles 2007-05-01

Other Titles Of Interest. - Review - book review

Proving his theory based on the examples of General Electric, Harley-Davidson, the U.S. Army and other organizations that are open to learning, Peter M. Senge explains in Dance of Change Doubleday how companies can accelerate their march to success and overcome obstacles. But that success is based on the sustained...

Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Harley-Davidson Inc., Manufacturing, U.S. Army

Research articles 2000-06-01

Getting to the Root of a Problem

Organizations often respond to financial and market imperatives by resolving problems with short-term solutions. Often, there are procedures in place to guide people's actions so that they spend minimal time on original thinking and then focus on the immediate requirements of the job. However, constantly relying on quick fixes requires...

Tags: Analysis, benefit, BNET Editorial, Business Operations, Cause, environment, financial, job, Problem, Productivity, Quality, Root Cause Analysis, Six Sigma, Solution, workplace

Articles 2007-10-11

Using Action Learning

Reg Revans (1907–2003) pioneered Action Learning as a management and organizational development tool. It's based on the premise that people learn best when they focus on a problem together. By sharing their prior knowledge and experience and by asking good questions based upon what they don't know, people can both...

Tags: BNET Editorial, Management, Action Learning Set, Action Learning Equation, Strategy, Action Learning, Team Management, Problem, Organization

Articles 2008-01-03