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Learning Organization Defined
A learning organization is
an organization which facilitates
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vision-driven
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learning of all its members and continuously
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improves
and
reinvents
itself.
"The ability to learn faster than your
competitors
may be the only
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Sustainable
Competitive Advantage
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– Arie de Geus
Creating Your Future
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Knowledge is most productive when it is shared by all. A learning
organization is an organization that is continually expanding its capacity
to grow and create its greater future. It is continuously learning new ways of
doing things and also involved in a continuous process of
forgetting obsolete ways of doing things.
Leveraging the Power of Knowledge
Learning is the key competency required by any
organization that wants to survive and thrive in the new
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knowledge economy.
Market champions keep
asking
learning questions, keep learning how to do things
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better, and keep spreading that knowledge throughout their organization.
Learning provides the catalyst and the intellectual resource to
create a
sustainable competitive advantage.
Knowledge organizations obtain competitive advantage from
continuous learning, both
individual and
collective. In organizations with a
well established knowledge management
system, learning by the people
within an organization becomes learning by the organization itself.
The
changes in people's
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attitudes are reflected in changes in the formal and
informal rules that govern the organization's behavior and
intellectual teamwork.
Knowledge communities organized around the principles of
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entrepreneurship
have the best chance at success. |
