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Disruptive Innovation and Organizational Learning

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Disruptive innovation has become a very popular notion about competition and organizational change. Drake Bennett in an article for BusinessWeek titled “The Innovator''s New Clothes: Is Disruption a Failed Model?” Harvard historian Jill Lepore has challenged the validity of disruptive innovation as an explanation of change.

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Joy to the World of Work

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Menlo Innovations , a software development company in Ann Arbor, Michigan, has made a joyful workplace its goal and has found that, by doing this, business success follows. a new book by Richard Sheridan, Co-Founder and CEO of Menlo, we read how his company makes joy the center of its business model. . In Joy, Inc. ,

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Vision and Values Shaping New Organizational Structures

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Leaders in their 40s, 50s, and 60s, who have prior experience in many different kinds of organizations, are intentionally creating truly unique work environments that are structured differently and operate differently from mainstream, bureaucratic, business-textbook organizations.

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How to Create a Learning Culture in Start-Ups and Small Businesses

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In this post, Rich Sheridan, Founder, CEO and Chief Storyteller at Menlo Innovations and author of Joy, Inc. - How We Built a Workplace People Love , explains what small companies and departments in large organizations can do to create a learning culture. Then innovation, imagination, invention and creativity emerge.

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Workplace as Learning Lab

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By experimenting with different methods of learning and evaluating the process and outcomes of these methods in the workplace, we might discover what methods are best for which workers under what circumstances. Noble argues that the day-to-day activities of an organization provide opportunities for innovation in learning.

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Eight Leader Habits of a Learning Culture

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This message is in the guiding principles of the business. Leaders say how they will support learning and how they will recognize and reward those employees who continually acquire new knowledge and new skills. . Build trust - Employees will invest time and effort in learning if they trust their managers.

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Strategy Questions

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Robert Simons does just that in his new book, Seven Strategy Questions: A Simple Approach for Better Execution. An exerpt appears in the November 22 nd issue of Harvard Business School’s Working Knowledge. Business leaders can’t make everyone happy. The organization needs onogoing innovation.

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