Mark I read what you answered to Widfried Dressler, you said :
> " But it IS possible to create the conditions in which knowledge naturally
> flourishes, just as it
> IS possible for you, as a gardener, to nurture the conditions in your garden
> that lead to the successful growth of your flowers and vegetables.You till
> the soil, fertilize the garden, and weed it as well. You even put fences
> around it to protect it from herbivorous creatures. But
> through it all, you don't GROW the plants; they grow themselves. You, on
> the other hand, "manage" the conditions in which this growth naturally
> occurs. If you manage it well, your garden grows well; if you manage it
> poorly, your garden grows poorly. The same goes for knowledge in human
> organizations."
I would like to ask you based on your experiences, which are the main
characteristics to create the conditions to have a successful growth of
learning organisation.
On the other hand, the size of the organisations gives them different
characteristics. I mean, the normally big company have more organisational
levels than the small ones, or commonly in the small companies who take
decisions in the owner of the company but in the big one it is done by a
lot of people. I think when you want to start to manage the conditions it
is very important to take care of the actual conditions of that
organisation, because as you said "Complex adaptive systems are living
systems that continuosly adapt to their environment through learning..."
to do that I think you must base your actions in the actual status of your
company.
Regards,
Fernando
--Fernando Casas Ortiz <fcasas@polimeros.com>
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