Today’s somewhat longer post revisits the world of humanistic psychology, and particularly the work of Erich Fromme (1900-1980). One of the most challenging of Fromm’s search for human motivation was his conviction that human beings are driven either consciously, or unconsciously, by the need to find answers to one’s existence. For Fromm the answers to [...]
Archive for June, 2008
Our Search for Meaning
Posted in Life skills, Shared Learning, learning, psychology on June 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Why Do Organizations Fail? 5-5
Posted in Business, Leadership, Shared Learning, learning, management on June 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Reflecting upon, and discussing what has failed, or indeed what has been successful, provides an opportunity for others who may not have been involved directly to learn as well. Again, others may bring new perspectives and insights that help analysis and counteract biases that may colour the perceptions of those most directly involved.
It is worth [...]
Why Do Organizations Fail? 4-5
Posted in Business, Shared Learning, learning, management on June 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
One of the tragedies in relation to the lack of organizational learning is that major, and indeed catastrophic failure, is often preceded by much smaller failures that were not identified as failures worth detailed examination, or indeed sources of learning.
A proactive and timely identification of possible failure is an essential step in the process of [...]
Why Do Organizations Fail? 3-5
Posted in Business, Leadership, Life skills, Shared Learning, learning, management on June 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In the previous post I wrote that all too many organizations don’t allow their people time to analyze and discuss what has worked and what hasn’t worked, thus restricting their learning and that of the organization as a totality.
Interestingly, research has strongly indicated that much of organizational incentives, policies, procedures and structures do more to [...]
Why Do Organizations Fail? 2-5
Posted in Business, Life skills, Shared Learning, learning, management on June 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
When small failures are not identified, discussed and analyzed early then it is usually very difficult for larger failures to be prevented.
Organizational failure can be defined to include the technical (for example, a flaw in design) and/or interpersonal (failure to offer feedback, or appropriate instruction to those with say a work related problem etc.)
We could say [...]
Why Do Organizations Fail? 1-5
Posted in Business, Education, Leadership, Shared Learning, Sustainability, learning, management on June 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Most organizations that fail, fail simply because they do not learn. The idea that people, and the organizations to which they belong, should learn and share that learning is broadly supported, and is even seen as obvious. However, in reality, few organizations encourage learning, even less, shared learning.
The question is: Why are there so many barriers [...]
Organizations With Learning Disabilities
Posted in Business, Education, Leadership, Shared Learning, Sustainability, learning, management on June 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The name of this website is LLPathways - short for Leadership and Learning Pathways.
The principle challenge for today’s organizational management is to make effective use of the organization’s collective leadership and learning capacity. However, the exercise of leadership and knowledge sharing are not at all easy.
As we are probably aware, there are inevitably both overt and hidden cultural, political [...]
Civilization – What Civilization?
Posted in Civilization, Government, Sustainability on June 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It could be said that civilization refers to those parts of the world characterized by a relatively high level of cultural and technological development. However, it is more often thought of as: ‘an ideal state of human culture characterized by complete absence of barbarism and non-rational behavior, as well as optimum utilization of physical, cultural, [...]
Confucius: What can he tell us about today?
Posted in Government, Leadership, Life skills, learning, philosophy on June 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
For Confucius people of able mind and body are in many ways responsible for their actions and especially their treatment of others. His social philosophy largely relates to the concept, of ren, “compassion”. We have talked of that before in the LLPathways posts.
Cultivating, or practicing, such concern for others, involved detracting from oneself. For example, avoiding [...]
The Way of Confusius: Reflections on Today’s China
Posted in China, Confusius, Government, Leadership, learning, philosophy on June 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today’s, and tomorrow’s, posts can be seen as returning to an earlier series of LLPathway’s posts relating to ‘The Tao of Leadership’. They are very much based on the current Reith Lectures given by Professor Jonathan Spence.
In China over recent years we have seen the decline of Maoist doctrine and the emergence of Confusian thought. [...]
