I like the question, What is right with Learning Organization?
(though it seems to be marked against my name, honestly I do not quite
recall asking it?)
I was reading this today ... something which Peter Senge felt was core
to Learning Organization. The five disciplines of Learning
Organizations structures a way of thinking that shifts our minds from
seeing parts to seeing wholes and by seeing these major
interrelationships in the whole, leads us eventually to new insights
on what might be done with complex problems leading ultimately to
dramatic breakthroughs in managing our organizations, businesses and
our lives (please note that there is no reference to packing employees
off for training, workshops and seminars!)
In the arms race, despite an abundance of "systems analysts" and
sophisticated analyses, both failed to find a systems view of the
problem that drained the economies of both countries, terrified two
generations and built-up enough combined stockpile ten thousand times
the total firepower of world war II.
Are today's organizations going through the same fate despite
sophisticated tools of forecasting, and business analysis, elegant
strategic plans and yet fail to produce dramatic breakthroughs in
managing the business?
So I ask, what's right with using these tools and not using the tools
of Learning Organization? |