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team environment: recognizing these assumptions speeds up and improves the
learning process. Active learning leads to and requires change: this change then
creates learning, so establishing a virtuous circle of improvement. The alterna-
tive is a vicious circle of decay, in which learning without change leads to
frustration and delay.
Once we’re learning and changing, we need to keep doing it. We can’t simply
declare our work done and stop. We need to do it again and again, each time
getting better and faster. And out of this work knowledge is created.
In the chapters that follow, we will explore these points in more depth and
consider what you can do to learn, how you can improve your organizational
Seed
learning
Recognize
assumptions
Improve
team
working
Remove
barriers to
learning
Motivate
learning
Learning
creates
change
Change
creates
learning
Go faster!
Go round
loop again
Knowledge
Learning with action
creates knowledge
Figure 1.2 The philosophy of the book.
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