learning organization – Scott J. Pearson’s Book Review

The Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well

By Scott J. Pearson | December 30, 2023September 24, 2024 by Scott J. Pearson

American business success tends to feed off a narrative of continual rise and winning. However, lives and careers are full of setbacks, and most do not know how to handle these towards a positive effect. Failing well is not an idea with wide acceptance. Many leaders fear permissiveness of failure will lead to a downward cycle in performance. Amy Edomondson, a business professor who studies organizational failures, believes that this pervasive culture needs to change.…

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The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization

By Scott J. Pearson | November 9, 2019November 9, 2019 by Scott J. Pearson

This book is the seminal statement of systems thinking – the philosophic idea that knowledge is increasingly aligned in groups of thought. And the goal of systems thinking is to produce an organization of human endeavors that – wait for it – learns. The learning organization trumps not only individual learners but also established organizations that have ceased to learn/grow/adapt effectively. While this might seem obvious to those (like myself) in research, much of this…