As we all know, to stay ahead of competitors, companies must constantly enhance the way they do business. But more performance-improvement programs fail than succeed. That's because many managers ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

OAKLAND, Calif., Nov. 17, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Five years ago, Kaiser Permanente set a goal to deliver best-in-class, high-quality performance. To support this, experts developed a performance ...

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 ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. What’s the difference in organizations that are built to last versus organizations that ...

We are continually changing in the fire service, offering the citizens we protect better services and providing our personnel with safer, more innovative practices. But how can we streamline this ...

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 ...