On A Learning Organization
~Jack Welch

A successful strategy is unleashed when you have a Learning Organization where employees to do everything better everyday. A Learning Organization have one significant competitive advantage: The initiative and innovation of Employees.

 " Make your organization a learning organization. The biggest competitive advantage that a company can have is creating an environment where people can lean from each other. You have to have an insatiable desire to learn. Shared knowledge is how you have to think about everything today. Get your organization thinking that way every day, and you will generate incredible energy and Intellect within your organization.We ran management development courses, business management course and executive development courses every year , and those course were three weeks long. We didn’t bring in Harvard professors; we had our own people teaching it so our employees could see what a leader looked like-again that ties into the role –model atmosphere. When I tell other CEOs that these were three-week course, they pass out. They’d say ‘Three weeks away from the job, how can you do it? ‘ I said, ‘ How can you not do it? ‘ These employees form a network with each other; they learn who is good. When they get promoted someday, they’ll know who to steal from another department. And going was a reward. It was a big deal. I think leadership development is critical, especially  to a large organization. It’s where the bonds are formed, it’s where the intimate knowledge across businesses are formulated. And don’t be afraid to go outside your company as well.  You have to fight every day to get rid of NIH-not invented here-at your company. The biggest untapped learning resource you have is other companies’ intellect, and all you have to do is ask for it. Nothing flatters a manger at another  company more than having the opportunity to show you how they do things. There isn’t company out there that isn’t proud to show you how it works at their company. Wal-Mart  does it. Toyota does it. Everybody does it. All you have to do is ask .”