Organizational learning

A survey of more than 800 executives and executive recruiters identifies top talent incubators — and what makes them excel.

Five ways to ensure your L&D investments pay off.

Learning should be guided by a company's strategy and execution.

David Garvin and Amy Edmondson, Harvard Business School professors and coauthors of the HBR article Is Yours a Learning Organization?. Learning organizations generate and act on new knowledge. The ability to do this enables companies to stay ahead of change and the competition.

First, how centralized should it be?

Scott Anthony, managing director of Innosight Asia-Pacific and author of "The Little Black Book of Innovation," explains how to become more creative.

How the both of you can move beyond counterproductive emotions and use it as an opportunity to build psychological safety.

In the face of rapid, disruptive change, companies are realizing that managers can't be expected to have all the answers and that command-and-control...

How can you plan for every crisis that might occur, even for ones you can't imagine? The authors' 20 years of research shows that three out of four Fortune...

Most executives believe that relentless execution-efficient, timely, consistent production and delivery of goods or services-is the surefire path to customer...

Think hard about the problems in your organization or about potential upheavals in the markets in which you operate. Could some of those problems--ones...

A "70/20/10" learning model can help future-proof your workforce.

This post is part of HBR's special issue on failure. This post was written with Mark Sebell and Jay Terwilliger, managing partners at Creative Realities,...

What causes so many companies that once dominated their industries to slide into decline? In this article, two Harvard Business School professors argue...

Instead of trying to predict the skills of the future, leaders must embrace a more flexible mindset.

Seven CEOs, entrepreneurs, and venture capitalists tell stories of personal failures-and what they learned from them. Doug Rauch, a former president of...

A small software company has remarkable success repairing its dysfunctional organizational dynamics through a form of improvisational theater. The key...

Good measurements enlighten, but bad ones mislead.

Traditional approaches to strategy assume that the world is relatively stable and predictable. But globalization, new technologies, and greater transparency...

Most companies do a poor job of capitalizing on the wealth of expertise scattered across their organizations. That's because they tend to rely on centralized...