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Learning to Compete

The Performance Improvement Blog

The rate at which an organization learns may be the only sustainable competitive advantage. If you are learning more rapidly than the competition, you can get ahead and stay ahead. Garvin & Edmondson, 2008). Employees tell stories that dramatize what they are learning. Action learning permeates all team activity.

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Reprise: Learning to Compete

The Performance Improvement Blog

The rate at which an organization learns may be the only sustainable competitive advantage. If you are learning more rapidly than the competition, you can get ahead and stay ahead. Garvin & Edmondson, 2008). Employees tell stories that dramatize what they are learning. Action learning permeates all team activity.

Culture 100
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Reprise: Learning to Compete

The Performance Improvement Blog

The rate at which an organization learns may be the only sustainable competitive advantage. If you are learning more rapidly than the competition, you can get ahead and stay ahead. Garvin & Edmondson, 2008). Employees tell stories that dramatize what they are learning. Action learning permeates all team activity.

Culture 100
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Aligning Employee Learning with the Organization

The Performance Improvement Blog

I wish it were otherwise, but learning is not just a classroom activity anymore, it must be a total system activity that takes into account strategic goals of the organization, the culture of the organization (values, beliefs, artifacts, structure, etc.), Learning that makes a difference occurs when all of these factors are aligned. .

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Old habits die hard, but good leaders can change

CLO Magazine

Innovative action: learning through experimentation. The leadership habit that balances the legacy habit of avoiding risk by delaying action is what I call “innovative action.” It’s the ability to uncover the best course of action through experiments, innovation and learning as you go.

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The Value of a Virtual Academy

CLO Magazine

SNAPSHOT : When Microsoft needed a more efficient way to deliver education to its global finance function, it tore down the classroom walls and created a flexible, Web-based learning model that enables people in different time zones to come together in an environment that fosters teamwork and yields a high retention rate.

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Cammy Beans Learning Visions: Lance Dublin: Formalizing Informal Learning

Learning Visions

Continue to learn and iterate listen and communicate 5 Key Principles: Speed. Action learning – nothing is certain. Stage 4: Get Real (Develop-Implement) Go right to Version 1 – forget the beta. No one’s committed to a beta. Integration – it’s got to fit inside a larger system.