Learning Organization Practitioners' Network (LOPN)
    A network from Singapore connected to SoL Global
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Updated: Sep 2012
OVERVIEW
What is a Learning Organisation
 OVERVIEW AND FRAMEWORKS
The 3-legged stool
Structural tension model
The 60 tools
What is a Learning Organisation?
Creating a Learning Organisation
Overcoming limits of Learning Organisation
Making Learning Organizations work
A Comparison of Tools of LO vis-a-vis Typical Management Tools
Process Design for Learning Organizations / Systemic Interventions for a nation [NEW]
What it is Not?
The Fifth Discipline (Summary)
What's in the Wikipedia
SoL Website
SoL NewsFlash

Photos of Peter Senge
Video 1: Pete's personal exposure and ongoing contemplations
Video 2: A rare and yet an indepth interview with Peter Senge (42 mins)
Video 3: [2011/09] Peter in Saudi Arabia, Jubail Industrial City - The Learning Organization
Video 4: Peter in Japan - Leaders as serving each other: To be a leader is to be a servant
Video 6: Peter in Argentina - Systems as out there vs "bridging the different perceptions we have of the same
system"
Video 7: Peter in Sao Paolo - What does it take to tap the spirit of people within organizations
Video 8 (2011/11): Ten years hence Speaker Series - Peter Senge (University of Norte Dame)
Videos by Senge

Posters on Learning Organization (for downloading and printing)
THE FIVE DISCIPLINES:
Personal Mastery
 Tips on
Chevreul's Pendulum (Video)
Video: The Creative Process
Shared Vision
 Tips on
Appreciate Inquiry
More shared vision exercises
Mental Models
 Tips on
The Kaniza Effect
Stereograms (Set 1, Set 2)
Peter Senge on Mental Models
Video: The Invisible Gorilla
Video:  One to the Power of 10
Ladder of Inference
Scenario Analysis and Planning
Team Learning
 Tips on
Facilitating skillful Discussion
Stages in Dialogue
Video: Solving A Maths Problem (An old black and white movie)
Video (Group Think): Challenger Disaster (History) (Abileen Paradox)
Video (Frames / Prejudice): 12 Angry Men (rest of the story) (Ending) (Commentary)
Video (Diversity vs culture): Peacock in the land of penguins
Video:  Knowledge Management (Managing the Tacit Knowledge)
Video:  Deep Dive (IDEO)
Systems Thinking
Tips on

WHY SYSTEMIC THINKING:
Paper Fold exercise (the power of exponential growth [See BOT])
The Beer Game (Facilitator File1, File 2, File 3)
Video: By Peter Senge (File 1; Collective Intelligence)
Video: By Russell Ackoff
Video: Why complexity is simple!
Video (2012/07):  The importance of Systems Thinking
The 11 Laws of Complexity

INTERPRETING DYNAMIC COMPLEXITY: WAYS WE "SEE" THEM (TRAPS OF THINKING)
System Archetypes
System Archetype Templates
Behavior over Time Patterns
Systems Dynamics in Schools
Reinforcing Loop
Balancing Loop
Fixes That Backfire
Shifting the Burden
Limits to Success
Escalation
Success to the Successful
Drifting Goals
Key Success Loop
"The Onion"

INTERVENING DYNAMIC COMPLEXITY: LEARNING TO LOSE ITS CIRCULAR VICIOUSNESS AND
TO TURN THESE COMPLEXITIES (TRAPS IN THE WAYS WE THINK) AROUND
Hi-leverage Interventions using case-studies
Concept of the "Trim tab" (Leverage)
The Healing Poison (Boiling the frog - An interesting animation and real-life experiment) the last 30s is a stunt)
Lessons from the Healing Poison
Vensim - Download for free to draw the causal loops

COMPILATION OF CASE-STUDIES
#1: Handphone thefts and shoplifting
#2: Citizen reliance on Govts
#3: Training Efficacy
#4: 'Griping' at the Workplace
#5: Child Sex Prostitution
#6: Hand-Foot-Mouth Disease
#7: Organizational Sustainability
#8: Student Defiance
#9: Standards of living and salary increases
#10:  Indigenous cultures fight onslaught of globalization
#11:  The struggle of debt collectors
#12:  The structure within organizations that holds Learning Organizations back
#13:  Work-life Imbalance
#14:  Congestion on the roads
#15:  HIV/AIDs continue to intensify around the world
#16:  Impact of Globalization on Localization
#17: Dengue fever cases not abating despite education and awareness efforts?
#18:  Corruption has been fighting back just as much as people have been fighting corruption.  Why so?
#19:  Traffic accidents not abating despite strict enforcement? - Aug 2006
#20:  Learning and development is difficult to happen despite efforts to create "Learning Organizations" - Nov
2006
#21:  Efforts at decreasing Global Warming may seem an an uphill task, yet the switch to turn it around may
be closer in our hands than we think! - Dec 2006
#22:  Rich-poor Divide in Singapore:  Is it just the fault of the designer of the economy?  If that is not the
case, then it is possible that no one can really make a difference.  How come? - Jan 2007
#23:  Worsening Cambodia-Vietnam relations - Feb 2007
#24:  Rising numbers of disasters happening in Indonesia
#25:  A Nation Coming Together - Key Success Loops
#26:  Understanding why there is never enough manpower & ways we may do more with less ... eventually
#27:  Understanding why addictions to gambling, drinking become a way of life and eventually lead to poverty!
#28:  Understanding why Unlicensed Moneylenders (UMLs) trend bucks all efforts to turn it south
RELATED WORKS:
Defensive Conversations by Chris Argyris
 Theory of Action
Model I conversation keeps us in single-loop learning
Model II conversation enhances double-loop learning
Organizational Learning by Chris Argyris
Case Study #1:  HIV/AIDs - tri-partiate conversation
Human Dynamics by Sandra Seagal
 Sandra Seagal's story
The three principles
Peter Senge on Human Dynamics
Servant Leadership by Robert Greenleaf
 [Under construction]
Video: Collective Leadership (by Senge)
World Cafe by Juanita Brown and David Isaacs
 The World Cafe - A Singapore Experience
World Cafe Guidelines
Open Space Technology
 Open Space - A Singapore Experience
Open Space Principles
Managing an LO Project
 Planning Corporate Retreats
Corporate Planning Projects - An eGuide
NETWORK INFORMATION:
NewsFlash (since the start of the website
edition in June 2005)
 There are currently no NewsFlash produced by the network.  There are however, the latest learnings of
projects since 2009 are captured at Case Study #25 (see above).  You are welcome to browse there for
updates of learnings.  (This note was placed here on Oct 2011)

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