Chapter 6: Re-Visiting Learning In The Knowledge Economy

Developing A Learning-Centric Organisation

The need for understanding how organisations learn and accelerate that learning is greater today than ever before. The old days when a Henry Ford, Alfred Sloan or Tom Watson learned for the organisation are gone. In an increasingly dynamic, independent and unpredictable world, it is simply no longer possible for anyone to figure it all out at the top. The old model ‘the top thinks and the local acts’ must now give way to the integrative thinking and acting at all levels (Peter Senge, 1998: 586).