Richard,
Now that you mention it...
>I have found myself increasingly disinterested in the LO list over the
>past 3-4 months due to the high level of abstraction in most of the
>threads and the dearth of empirical evidence offered to support the vast
>majority of the various contributors' abstractions.
I think you are right. Could it be that this is a summer phenomenon?
More time for reflective abstract thought, at the beach, the pool or on
the porch in the evening. I find that it is difficult to move people to
take action or make commitments in the summer. Is this reflected in the
list? I don't know.
All I know is that a Learning Organization is not a commodity, but a
statement describing the action taking by those within the organization to
continuously improve by continually learning. Isn't this a fundamental
truth of LO doctrine?
So let me conclude this foray into abstraction with a concrete question.
If you are negotiating a contract for a project either internally or
externally, how to design that contract to make learning a core value of
the contract? If we are serious about learning, how to we structure it
into our proposals for projects?
Looking forward to some concrete suggestions.
Ed Brenegar
Leadership Resources
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