Tag Archive 'Create an Authentic Learning Organization'

  • Potential Roadblocks to Sustaining a Learning Culture

  • Creating a learning culture almost always involves a massive effort, and this is especially true if it’s necessary to re-create the culture of an existing organization. If you decide to embark on the path of developing a learning culture, pay close attention to these potential stumbling blocks: A BLOATED BUREAUCRACY. Nothing can slow an organization [...]

  • A Road Map for Creating a Learning Organization

  • Nearly every move that Welch made in his far-reaching effort to reinvent GE had both intended and unintended consequences. For instance, his restructuring/downsizing phase strengthened the organization’s financials, but had a negative impact on morale. This had two important implications for the learning-organization initiatives. First, the organization had to keep a watchful eye out for [...]

  • Creating a Learning Infrastructure

  • Welch did not start as GE’s chairman with the notion of creating the world’s largest learning organization, nor did that accomplishment come easily or quickly. It took many years, lots of sweat and blood, and a series of courageous decisions in the intervening years. He did, however, send the right message almost from the very [...]

  • The Four Characteristics of a Learning Organization

  • Although the road to a learning culture is unique to each organization, all learning cultures share certain characteristics. Here are four such traits: INFORMATION IS SHARED AND ACCESSIBLE. In a learning culture, data and information are not kept secret or hoarded by management. Instead, they are readily accessible, so that managers and employees share a [...]

  • The Welch Legacy

  • Jack Welch achieved extraordinary results with uncanny consistency. He achieved double-digit growth year after year, helping to build his reputation as an iconic business leader who could do no wrong. He was a role model for others to emulate: Double-digit annual growth became the benchmark for all CEOs and corporations in America. Welch debunked many [...]

  • What Would Jack Welch Do?

  • Our behavior is driven by a fundamental core belief: the desire, and the ability, of an organization to continuously learn from any source, anywhere; and to rapidly convert this learning into action is its ultimate competitive advantage. —JACK WELCH, former CEO of General Electric This boundaryless learning culture killed any view that assumed the "GE [...]