Learning Organisation

Learning organisations are possible because, deep down, we are all learners. No one has to teach an infant to learn.In fact no one has to teach infants anything. They are intrinsically inquisitive, masterful learnerswho learn to walk, speak, and pretty much run their households all on their own.Learning organisations are possible because not only is it in our nature to learn but we love to learn. Most of us at one time or another have been part of a great team, a group of people who functioned together in an extraordinary way - who trusted one another, who complemented one another's strengths and compensated for one another's limitations, who had common goals that were larger than individual goals, and who produced extraordinary results. I have met people who have experienced this sort of profound teamwork - in sports , or in performing arts, or in business.Many say that they have spent much of their life looking for that experience again.What they experienced was a learning organisation.The team that became great did not start off great - it learned how to produce extraordinary results.