Identifying Learning Organizations LO14966

Ray Evans Harrell (mcore@IDT.NET)
Thu, 11 Sep 1997 22:07:01 -0700

Replying to LO14948 --

Bill Harris wrote:
> Clyde wrote:
> > requires a very open point of view on the part of the planning staff.
>
> I'm not a military historian, so I can't speak to Patton's organization
> (although I did enjoy the movie :-). I think we must distinguish between
> people open to manager/general/leader _imposed_ change and an organization
> open to learning and change, no matter where it comes from.
>
> > The field commanders were operating often out of a sense of fear of Gen
> > Patton. But this is not that different from what takes place in many
> > successful (learning?) organiztions in modern business. They still
> > managed to learn and adapt to the changing situations.

Not being a military historian either I would still recommend the study of
the first world war and the German General Ludendorff. There was a lot of
flat organization in his field work and he almost turned it around except
the rest of the German organization was in the old model. Lucky for us.

Ray Evans Harrell, artistic director
The Magic Circle Chamber Opera of New York
http://www.freeyellow.com/members/mccony/
mcore@idt.net

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Ray Evans Harrell <mcore@IDT.NET>

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