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Organizational Learning in the Age of Ideas

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The authors write: Many organizations have a culture that is still unconsciously modelled on the managerial, ‘Steam Engine’ mindset of the industrial era; a culture which is fundamentally unsuited to the modern workplace. A culture of command-and-control is a barrier to organizational learning.

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Assessing Your Organizational Learning Culture

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Each of these tools is designed according to the authors’ definition of a learning culture. For example, David Garvin and Amy Edmondson created an assessment tool to look for: a supportive learning environment, concrete learning processes and practices, and leadership behavior that provides reinforcement.

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Organizational Learning in Colleges and Universities

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Selingo, editor at large for The Chronicle for Higher Education and author of the new book, College (Un)bound: The Future of Higher Education and What It Means for Students , says,“American higher education has lost its way.” They must be open to true transformation; not simply incremental improvements. .

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eLearning Authoring Tools + xAPI = A Love Story

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eLearning authoring tools and xAPI go together like the proverbial horse and carriage. In this blog post from Customer Success Manager, Simon Waldram, we look at the love affair between xAPI and authoring tools, and detail four ways an authoring tool can use xAPI to drive learning value. What Is xAPI?

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Using Measurement to Create a Learning Culture

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Smith (author of The Wisdom of Teams ) writes in the Forward to the book, Creating a Learning Culture: Strategy, Technology, and Practice : Today, you cannot avoid human questions like these: What must I learn next? What do I need to be learning in order to be more productive? How can we learn best?

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Organization Culture Change

The Performance Improvement Blog

In the online course that I teach for ASTD on Developing an Organizational Learning Culture , one of the questions I hear most often is, “How can I change the culture in my company when there is little support from management and our unions resist any change that might affect the work rules?” This question has no easy answer.

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What's a Thought Leader?

The Performance Improvement Blog

First use of the term is attributed to Joel Kurtzman who, in 1994, used it in marketing to refer to companies that were intentionally positioned to become known as authorities on a particular product or service. When it comes to organizational learning, it''s people like Peter Senge , David Garvin, and Edgar Schein.