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The profound difference in childhood lifestyle between senior executives and executives is forcing companies to examine the way they supervise and teach employees. According to Peter Senge, author of the book The Fifth Discipline, a learning organization reflects the transformation the society is going through: from an industrial society to a knowledge society. In the knowledge era, individuals are discovering there may not be one specific causal link for every problem. This means there are not only multiple ways of viewing reality, but also multiple ways of knowing (learning). Learning creatively allows individuals to take in information and knowledge they would normally discard or ignore. There is more to be gained from meaningful learning than just increased learning capacity. Meaningful learning is intrinsically motivating. Meaningful learners are seen as the people "in the know," because they want to know, to understand, and reshape how they view the world.
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Reshaping the Way We View the World
MANY SENIOR EXECUTIVES today are members of the renowned baby boom generation, when the fear of Communism created a society that craved security and conformity.
Most of today's executives probably grew up in pleasant suburbs, played little league baseball, attended the senior prom, and went to college.The profound difference in childhood lifestyle between senior executives and executives is forcing companies to examine the way they supervise and teach employees. In a previous article on meaningful work, I wrote, "Yet, even though we now work in a knowledge economy, we still manage with a manufacturing, assembly-line mentality. We try to motivate knowledge workers with an industrial e...See the full content of this document
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