Organizational Learning: A Core Competency For Sustainable Growth
A complete strategy execution program depends upon the power of community learning. Communities also provide powerful support for our tendency to not do the things we know we should.
These two powerful ideas—community and learning— have a high degree of synergy. Both are necessary to a strategy execution program. First, the power of community is required to change the economics for implementing such a program in an organization like yours. Second, learning is required to overcome the natural tendency we have as individuals and organizations to wander from the very disciplines that can take us to the next level of performance.
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Our definition of organizational learning is built around communities that share the following characteristics:
- A belief that your ultimate core competence is based on the “master process” – the ability to execute strategy.
- Your use of a shared repeatable methodology that helps you organize your efforts so you can learn to execute better and speak the same language.
- Strategy execution coaches who are experts in the same repeatable methodology.
- The daily use of strategy execution software to integrate planning and activity alignment throughout your organization.
Of all the four components of Six Disciplines’ complete strategy execution program (methodology, coaching, software, and a learning community) the learning community has the potential to be the most transforming component of all, using the other three components as leverage.
