Chapter Too
By Sarah Ratcliffe, SPHR
Last week, we talked about how talking and sharing result in learning and thinking and that this can, in turn, result in a need to revise, change or adapt. “Revise,” “change” and “adapt” are messy words that require time, space and resources. They also imply unfreezing our current processes or thoughts, changing them, and then refreezing those processes or thoughts. This week, we will look at how to make messy a good thing. —Editor
Peter Senge, author of The Fifth Discipline, is the father of something called the “Learning Organization” and affirms the theory of “learning up" instead of top-down knowledge sharing. The learning organization works to share from the bottom up.
Such an approach absolutely requires an honest reflection from those in authority to recognize that they do not always have all the answers and that any organization that is going to grow and change changes from learning.
