Organizational Learning

June 2025

• Jun 20, 2025ExplainersHistory of Organizational LearningArgyris and Schon distinguished single-loop learning, which fixes errors, from double-loop learning, which questions underlying assumptions.37 MIN21.2k

May 2025

• May 5, 2025CultureLearning Culture ExplainedLearning cultures encourage questions, share knowledge openly, reward teaching, tolerate mistakes, and value growth over appearing knowledgeable.24 MIN38.8k
• May 2, 2025CultureKnowledge Transfer ProblemsKnowledge is context-dependent. What works in situation A fails in B. Experts struggle to teach tacit knowledge.32 MIN24.3k

October 2022

• Oct 7, 2022ConceptsDouble-Loop Learning: How Organizations Learn from ErrorsDouble-loop learning, developed by Argyris and Schon, goes beyond fixing errors to questioning the assumptions that caused them.22 MIN6.7k

August 2022

• Aug 3, 2022Work SkillsUnderstanding Knowledge Management in OrganizationsKnowledge management is how organizations capture, share, and preserve what they know. Learn about Nonaka's SECI model, tacit vs explicit...23 MIN4.5k

July 2022

• Jul 11, 2022Work SkillsUnderstanding Organizational Learning DynamicsHow organizations learn, from Senge's five disciplines to blameless post-mortems and Nonaka's knowledge creation model, and why most companies...22 MIN5.8k
• Jul 3, 2022ConceptsRetrospective Sensemaking: How We Reconstruct Our PastHow humans construct coherent narratives from ambiguous experience after the fact, and why this matters for learning, memory, and decision-making.21 MIN2.3k