I would agree with this. One of the earlier books on NASA and teams is
Dennis Kinlaw's book "Developing Superior Work Teams" is based on his
experience working with NASA, Kennedy Space Center and their effort at
work teams.
Learning Organizational notions are not integrated into the language of
the text but it is apparent that a LO had to exist within these work team.
> Replying to LO8830 -- >
> >I think Apollo 13 is an excellent example of
how > >teams function within a learning organization. What is so
interesting is > >that the traditionally hierarchical (and even
militaristic) structure of > >NASA had to break into teams of practice in
order to solve a life and > >death problem. What makes this even more
interesting is that it really > >happened.
Peace, ET eLIZabeth Reed-Torrence
--Elizabeth Reed-Torrence <ereedtor@seattleu.edu>
Learning-org -- An Internet Dialog on Learning Organizations For info: <rkarash@karash.com> -or- <http://world.std.com/~lo/>