We have found that many people talk about
learning organizations without realizing
the underlying assumptions that are
required to develop a learning organization.
Once we facilitated a group training
and did a blitz survey about how many
people
believed they work in a learning
organization. All but two out of 18 people
believed they worked for a learning organization.
They associated the concept of
learning organization with the learning
opportunities their organizations offered
to employees. By the end of the training, in
which we explored the concept of learning
organizations, we asked the same question
again and only two out of 16 said they
worked for a learning organization. Why?
They realized that there is much more
to the concept of organizational learning
than the amount of training people
can take.