Being a new leader has offered me a chance to see every decision differently than I would have in the past. As a teacher, although concerned with the good of the whole and how I fit in it, my first ...

We have all likely been part of a team where someone makes a mistake and hides it. We could have easily mitigated the issue and moved on. However, we are now in panic mode calling tiger teams or ...

Our team is often asked to assist with designing and delivering training, so we get to inspect a lot of learning and development operations, processes and deliverables. When we are engaged, we make ...

In his book The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization, scientist and organizational-theory expert Peter Senge describes a learning organization as a place “where people ...

Originally published in 1990. Audiobook release in 2000. The Fifth Discipline holds up really well. First published all the way back in 1990, and revised in 2006, Senge’s book is still relevant for ...

Edmondson, Amy C., and Bertrand Moingeon. "From Organizational Learning to the Learning Organization." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 97-067, March 1997.

Dynamic organizations are ones with staff who appreciate the need for change and who embrace lifelong learning. Our world undergoes constant and rapid change, and those who do not welcome it find ...

Libraries are commonly seen as places that encourage learning and personal growth for patrons, yet sometimes the learning and growth of the library’s own staff may be overlooked. In this era of lean ...

In the 1990s, many of us were reading and discussing Peter Senge’s work on creating learning organizations. Senge defines them as “organizations where people continually expand their capacity to ...

In 1994, after serving as an organizational consultant for General Gordon Sullivan, then U.S. Army Chief of Staff, Margaret Wheatley wrote an article about the U.S. Army becoming a learning ...