Learn

To learn how to learn and be motivated to continue to do so is to be twice blessed.

—Russell Ackoff

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

—Henry Ford

An organization's ability to learn, and to translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.

—Jack Welch

The most important factor in the success of creating a learning community is the leadership’s attitude to failure.

—Kaplan of Organisational Learning.

We understand that the only competitive advantage the company of the future will have is its managers’ ability to learn faster than then their competitors.

—Arie de Geus

Sources

• Faster Than 20 » Eugene Eric Kim » Actually,documenting is learning!
• HBR » Chris Argyris » Teaching Smart People How to Learn
• InfoQ » Ben Linders » Nurturing a Culture for Continuous Learning
• HBR » Bill Taylor » The Best Leaders Are Insatiable Learners

• HBR » Rick Wartzman » What Peter Drucker Knew About 2020, importance of autonomy, mastery, purpose, and scalable learning.

See also:

• to document
• code is nothing, coding is everything
• retrospective gathering
• product review
• double-loop learning
• triple-loop learning
• broccoli of loops