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Organizational Learning

Improving Organizational Memory

A diner arrives for breakfast in a five-star hotel restaurant. She has numerous severe food allergies and no meals off for good behavior. Every day takes vigilance and patience to stay healthy. For this celiac, a bite of wheat gluten begins a four-day cycle of body distress, pain, and brain

The Respect in Responsiveness

Many issues arise each day to challenge our problem-solving and coping skills at work. If I were asked to force rank which of the problems, when left unresolved, have the most substantial long-term negative impact on a company, it would be reduced responsiveness. Other candidates like missed deadlines, stressful interpersonal

Focus on Getting Better, Not Looking Good

In my whole life, I have known no wise people (over a broad subject matter area) who didn’t read all the time — none, zero. Charlie Munger of Berkshire Hathaway I read this quote recently, and my thoughts turned, as they often do, to the implications lifelong learning has on