People don’t resist change; they resist being changed. Credit: Peter Senge People: Peter SengePeter Senge Systems scientistPosts: Peter SengeImproving Performance with After-action Reviews Building a culture of improvementBooks: Peter SengeImproving Performance with After-action Reviews Building a culture of improvementKnowledge Is the Capacity for Effective Action Peter SengeLeadership Is the Capacity of a Human Community to … Continue reading People Don’t Resist Change They Resist Being Changed Peter Senge
The Army’s After Action Review (AAR) is arguably one of the most successful organizational learning methods yet devised. Yet, most every corporate effort to graft this truly innovative practice into their culture has failed because, again and again, people reduce the living practice of AAR’s to a sterile technique. Credit: Peter Senge People: Peter SengePeter … Continue reading The After-action Review Is Arguably One of the Most Successful Organizational Learning Methods Peter Senge
Learning is all about connections, and through our connections with unique people we are able to gain a true understanding of the world around us. Credit: Peter Senge People: Peter SengePeter Senge Systems scientistPosts: Peter SengeImproving Performance with After-action Reviews Building a culture of improvementBooks: Peter SengeImproving Performance with After-action Reviews Building a culture of … Continue reading Learning Is All About Connections Peter Senge
Our traditional view of leaders — as special people who set the direction, make the key decisions, and energize the troops — is deeply rooted in an individualistic and non-systemic world-view. In a learning organization, the leaders’ role differs dramatically from that of the charismatic decision maker. Leaders are designers, teachers, and stewards. These roles … Continue reading The Leader’s New Work Peter Senge
Knowledge is the capacity for effective action. There is no capacity for effective action in a database. Credit: Peter Senge Comment: This quote from Peter Senge draws a distinction between mere information or data (a “database”) and true knowledge, which he defines as “the capacity for effective action.” It suggests that simply accumulating facts and … Continue reading There Is No Capacity for Effective Action in a Database Peter Senge
Reports aren’t knowledge. Credit: Peter Senge Tweet This Source: When will the World Bank prioritize learning over lending?People: Peter SengePeter Senge Systems scientistPosts: Peter SengeImproving Performance with After-action Reviews Building a culture of improvementBooks: Peter SengeImproving Performance with After-action Reviews Building a culture of improvementKnowledge Is the Capacity for Effective Action Peter SengeLeadership Is the … Continue reading Reports Aren’t Knowledge Peter Senge
Knowledge is the capacity for effective action. There is no capacity for effective action in a database. Credit: Peter Senge Tweet This People: Peter SengePeter Senge Systems scientistPosts: Peter SengeImproving Performance with After-action Reviews Building a culture of improvementBooks: Peter SengeImproving Performance with After-action Reviews Building a culture of improvementKnowledge Is the Capacity for Effective … Continue reading Knowledge Is the Capacity for Effective Action Peter Senge
Peter Senge is an American systems scientist. He is a senior lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management and the founder of the Society for Organizational Learning. Systems thinking for a better world | Peter Senge WikipediaPeter SengeYouTubePeter SengeGooglePeter SengePosts: Peter SengeImproving Performance with After-action Reviews Building a culture of improvementBooks: Peter SengeImproving Performance … Continue reading Peter Senge Systems scientist
Sharing knowledge is not about giving people something or getting something from them. That is only valid for information sharing. Sharing knowledge occurs when people are genuinely interested in helping one another develop new capacities for action; it is about creating learning processes. Credit: Peter Senge People: Peter SengePeter Senge Systems scientistPosts: Peter SengeImproving Performance … Continue reading Sharing Knowledge Is Not the Same as Information Sharing Peter Senge
Consider prejudice. Once a person begins to accept a stereotype of a particular group, that “thought” becomes an active agent, “participating” in shaping how he or she interacts with another person who falls in that stereotyped class. In turn, the tone of their interaction influences the other person’s behaviour. The prejudiced person can’t see how … Continue reading Consider Prejudice Peter Senge
AustraliaAustriaBrazilCanadaChinaCzech RepublicEgyptFranceGermanyGlobalIndiaItalyJapanMexicoNetherlandsPolandSaudia ArabiaSingaporeSpainTurkeyUAEUnited KingdomUnited States As an Amazon Associate, I earn a small commission when you purchase a book via this site. The Extended Mind: the Power of Thinking Outside the Brain The Fourth Economy: Inventing Western Civilization Tags: learning (35) | learning organization (3) | Peter Senge (17)Google Web Search Photo Credits: Midjourney … Continue reading The Fifth Discipline: the Art & Practice of the Learning Organization by Peter Senge (2006)
Introduction: Conversational Methods Anecdote Circles Close Pop-up all posts in this chapter It’s easy to move from one activity to the next without pausing to reflect. This absence of reflection often results in repeated mistakes and missed opportunities for improvement. As a vital tool in Conversational Leadership, regularly using After-Action Reviews allows teams to learn … Continue reading Improving Performance with After-action Reviews Building a culture of improvement
Ways of Knowing From Knowledge to Agency Close Pop-up all posts in this chapter What is the difference between information and knowledge? In everyday language, the words “knowledge and “information” are used loosely and interchangeably. Knowledge is frequently defined as something like this: Knowledge is a fluid mix of framed experience, values, contextual information, and … Continue reading Knowledge Only Exists in the Mind Everything else is information
Reading Group Café Marketing Café ** Close Pop-up all posts in this chapter An Engagement Café is a form of Knowledge Café designed to help people engage with an issue such as a new policy or procedure in the context of their organization. The problem Individuals and workgroups in organizations frequently write policy documents and … Continue reading Engagement Café Conversation is king. Content is just something to talk about.
Peer Instruction Learn by Talking Close Pop-up all posts in this chapter How can we effectively share knowledge, particularly tacit knowledge, which cannot be easily encoded into information or implicit knowledge that is not consciously known? The Nature of Knowledge Knowledge is etched into our minds in long-term memory from experience, years of study, and … Continue reading Sharing Knowledge Through Conversation Knowledge isn’t there the way ore is buried
