Organizational Learning

Refining the feedback culture at an organizational level by comparing the daily practices of GitHub and Facebook.

A look at how GitHub and Facebook create and improve a feedback culture, beyond the traditional performance reviews. Ryan Nystrom discusses the fine details of handling feedback culture both on an organizational and personal level. By comparing the two cultures, he identifies the essential elements of a big company's feedback culture, its benefits, and how to keep the feedback useful.

Introducing a tool to help you paint an honest picture of your firm’s learning culture and of the leaders who set its tone.

Harvard Business Professors introduce a survey instrument tool that enables a granular examination of the three pillars of a learning culture, scores each of them, and provides a framework for detailed, comparative analysis. With the results, you can make comparisons within and among your institution’s functional areas, between your organization and others, and against benchmarks that the authors have derived from their surveys of hundreds of executives in many industries.

Describing the passion to explore and learn, and how companies can instil this mindset among their employees.

Companies today are creating lifelong learning programs for their employees to stay ahead of the competition. Some companies instill fear of losing work in their employees as one way of making them learn. The author suspected that this is not the most convenient method, but with the help of his colleagues, they discovered passion is the most powerful motivator for learning. Employees who have a similar passion as explorers, who are motivated to deal with their challenges and learn from them learn much faster than those motivated by fear.