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This 8 page paper examines the 1990 article by Peter Senge “The Leader’s New Work: Building Learning Organization” published by the Sloan Management Review and considers the concept of the leadership for a learning organization and critiques it with reference to good examples of a learning organisation and alternate theories. The bibliography cites 6 sources.
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challenged traditional ways of thinking arguing that society constrains us and the usually ways of measuring performance of both the individual and the company are inherently bias towards policies that
seek continuation rather than growth and learning. However, it is only with learning, which can be created if there is the development of a creative stretch within an organisation, that
there will be a real development in terms of learning. 2. Senges Ideas in Action We can typify how learing takes place when
we look at an example that is given by Senge. A good example of this is Royal Dutch Shell that unless it had developed and changed by creating a learning
environment could have been subject to a later acquisition attempt. The initial development alone created a learning environment, but may not have created a learning organisation, but later events may
be arguably creating this rare creature. Here there was the development of creative starch by increasing the visions of the company away form the reality to create the stretch (Senge,
1990). Senge uses this to show how learning had to challenge rather that compliment the existing status quo where measuring of performance
had led to a position where the company was very weak. The first major change in Shells management was in 1971 when
the analysts predicted major changes in the steady growth but the organisation failed to change so that it would be able to adapt, this was not a learning organisation, but
one in danger of failing if they did not adapt and learn. The planners were frustrated and their goals changed from planning for the future to trying to teach the
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