Posts tagged #learning
Individual Ability vs Organizational Applicability

You’ve got the stuff, the smarts, the experience, the connections to get the job done. You are right there. They are looking right at you! But they don’t even see you. They get some inexperienced person to do a job well beyond their capacity. Or worse…they hire some outside consultant to do fit or more than twice what they pay you. Sheesh. Enough already!

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Facilitating vs Debilitating Bureaucracy

In our desire to create a consistently reliable (and comfortable) method of obtaining results, we lose sight of how the results we seek to attain have changed from those which our management system—our institution’s bureaucracy—were designed to obtain. We then box ourselves into obsolete thinking that we cannot emotionally bear to change. It’s time to cut the crap…

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Learning Organization

Do you feel that the learning you engage in is not utilized, acknowledged, or valued by your organization? Do you have opportunities to use knowledge acquired and share it with others so they can also benefit from it? Are there built-in feedback loops in your processes, policies, and procedures? For those who answer yes, you may work for a #learningorganization. For those who said no, well, you don’t. A learning organization has a culture that views every activity as an opportunity to learn something new and uncover blindspots. They are also willing to #cutthecrap...

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