learning organization concept
Peter Senge (1990): an organization that continually expands its capacity to create its desired future.
Peter Senge (1990): an organization that continually expands its capacity to create its desired future. Five disciplines: systems thinking (the cornerstone), personal mastery, mental models, shared vision, team learning. The phrase has been diluted by management consultants, but the idea — that an org's competitive advantage is how fast it learns relative to its competitors — is load-bearing. Connects to Westrum's generative culture, blameless postmortems as learning instruments, and Accelerate's finding that culture predicts performance.