My own personal answers are 1) it's a way for our organizations to have
higher performance *and* be more personally satisfying to the people, and
2) it's part of a very deep human drive to improve. But, what are your
answers?
I am working with a group to create a collage of responses, and we hope
to capture the widest range of views. I will collect responses and post a
combined response here. My colleagues in the group are soliciting
responses from others, including the MIT Organizational Learning Center.
Our aim is to link together the various consitituencies interested in the
learning organization by finding people who can serve as the connecting
links. Are you the connecting link to some other group? If so, please
solicit their responses too.
Please send all responses to learning-org@world.std.com with the title
"Why a Learning Organization?"; I will collect them and post a combined
response. We intend to use all answers without attribution to
individuals, and I will assume it will be OK to use answers to this query
in our assemblage which may be circulated outside this list.
For the first round, please respond by Monday, Feb 6th. And, thanks for
your help. I believe the collage of responses can advance our overall
effort.
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