Replying to LO29787 --
Malcolm and At on GE's status as a LO:
>But then, as always, I welcome the thoughts of those who
>see it differently.
The same here. But it seems that we agree on GE not being a LO nor on the
road to emerge into one.
I won't take anything out of context here. You've both made excellent
observations, but I will disagree. A learning organization is one in
which the Vth discipline is reached through the use of the other four.
This learning of systems thinking does not need to be in the head of the
CEO, or the Chairman, or any other titular leader. It lives in the
communities of practice within the overall organization. In GE, as in my
own org (ITT Industries), there are communities of practice in systems
thinking being built through the use of mental modelling, extensive
efforts at both personal mastery and team learning, shared visions and
values. The Six Sigma community in any organization which has adapted the
model is tasked with changing the culture, in teaching people to think
upstream and downstream and of unintened consequences, etc.
These are the LOs within the LO.
John
John Zavacki
systhinc@msn.com
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make
mistakes.
Mahatma Gandhi
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