About this episode

Dr. Selena Fisk explores the true meaning of being a learning organisation and the challenges teams face in actual learning versus mere rhetoric.

In this episode, Dr. Selena Fisk explores what it really means to be a learning organisation and challenges whether most teams are actually learning or simply saying the right things. Drawing on Harvard Business Review's work on learning organisations, she unpacks the role of both pre-decision and post-decision data, and why the real test of organisational learning comes when evidence challenges the plan, the decision, or the leader.

People in this episode

Host: Dr. Selena Fisk

Topics covered

• learning organisation
• data-driven decision making
• organizational learning
• team dynamics
• evidence-based management

Keywords

• learning organisation
• data
• decision making
• Harvard Business Review
• organizational learning

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Harvard Business Review

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