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What's
a learning organization?
- Is
your organization still steaming along in the 19th century?
- Organizations
need to change fast to survive.
- As
we cannot predict the future, we need to learn fast.
- Learning
fast = adjusting to your environment quickly
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- What's
the difference between organizational learning and employee development?
- The former
have a risk taking culture that learns through trial and error.
- The learning
organization is one that adjusts quickly to market feedback.
- Employee
development, however valuable, is not organizational learning.
- An organization
that learns quickly is essentially entrepreneurial because it
acts quickly, makes mistakes, improvises and changes course ahead
of the competition.
- Learning
organizations introduce products quickly even if they are not
"ready".
- They then
modify trial offerings on the basis of feedback.
- This trial
and error process, not strategic planning, is organizational learning.
- Organizations
that are poor at learning are slow to adjust to changing markets.
- A cautious,
risk-averse culture might still foster employee development.
- This is
not a learning organization - only entrepeneurial organizations
are learners - they act fast, take risks and learn from mistakes.
- To create
a learning organization, first focus on creating a more entrepreneurial
culture.
- Fostering
continuous employee development is complementary to a learning
culture.
- But an
organization can learn entrepreneurially without employee development.
- You could
have a fast learning organization that continually imported fresh
talent with little emphasis on employee development.
- This is
not to downplay the value of employee development - just to clearly
separate it from organizational learning.
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