The aim of this book is to face up to and explain how organizations can escape from the "blame culture", where risk avoidance leads to stagnation, and turn to "gain cultures", which tolerate and even encourage mistakes in the pursuit of innovation, change and improvement. The book draws on analysis of over 200 accounts of real mistakes within business and organizations and looks at the types of mistakes made, the context they were made in and how they helped learning and development. The book aims to give sound advice on how individuals learn, practical measures that orginizations can adopt to enhance learning through better management of mistakes, and the promotion of a culture which supports and fosters experimentation and risk taking.
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This book is about mistakes and what can be learned from them. It shows how organizations can free up people to think, communicate and act without fear, shifting the culture from one of blame to gain (gain culture). In one chapter the author, for example, provides a detailed analysis of 227 eminent people, treating them in such a way that individual self-esteem is not threatened. Section 2 is devoted to harnessing the positive power of mistakes. The discussion of the gain culture and its development is enlightening for those concerned with creating a learning organization. The book is very well organized, practical, provides exercises and stories or cases that illustrate major points. The hunt for the guilty seems to pervade organizational life. This book shows how to escape from the grip of the black hole of blame into which so many bright stars of the organizational galaxy sadly perish. So most every organization will benefit from this book. Highly recommended to managers everywhere.
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- The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of the Learning Organization by Peter M. Senge on 8 pages
- Management Mistakes and Successes by Robert F. Hartley on 5 pages
- Management Mistakes & Successes by Robert F. Hartley on 5 pages
- Mapping Strategic Thought by Anne Sigismund Huff on 4 pages
- In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America's Best-Run Companies (Collins Business Essentials) by Thomas J. Peters on 4 pages
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- The Handbook of Work Based Learning by Ian Cunningham in Back Matter
- Facilitating Learning Organizations: Making Learning Count by Victoria J. Marsick in Back Matter
- Management Fads and Buzzwords: Critical-Practical Perspectives by David Collins in Back Matter
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