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 ...

To understand the importance of what is seen in Chapter 9 of A Year at Mission Hill, it is important to understand what isn’t seen in so many of the country’s public schools. In describing the ...

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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 ...

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. You are an educator. You work in higher ed. Likely, you are involved in learning innovation in some ...

It's often said that about 75% of an employee's learning comes from informal venues, not — as might be expected — from a college degree or an accredited institution. Although this might come as a ...

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 ...