Replying to LO26086 --
In a message dated 2/10/01 3:47:16 PM Pacific Standard Time,
sjwells@earthlink.net writes:
> I think the interesting thing is the thread that has been on this list
> about the number of organizations that believe they are Learning
> Organizations but they really aren't or they think that if they have
> training classes, then they correlate that to being a Learning Org. I
> just left a company where they were very smug about their learning
> programs, widely espoused a "Develop People" goal, and yet, don't
> challenge their internal picture of themselves. People "down" the
> organizational hierarchy shouldn't ask questions of senior leaders, and
> heavens, don't speak candidly about a problem. They have promoted their
> own press (and to be sure, I promoted the "ideal" picture myself for about
> a year or so while I was there, until I realized that the pockets of
I was just reading Working Knowledge by Davenport and Prusak and came
across this statement: "If we were to construct a single test for how
open to knowledge generation an organization is, we would ask how often
its executives question their own knowledge." (p. 62)
Harriett J. Robles
hjrobles@aol.com
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