Organisational learning is about building networks

Business 2.0: The management secrets of the brain [via elearningpost]

Your brain is the ultimate example of a complex, decentralized organization. And because we (usually) behave coherently, smoothly integrating new circumstances as they arise, the brain is also the epitome of an adaptive organization, a learning organization, a shared-vision organization — in short, the ideal modern company.

Management rules we can learn from our brains:

• Never try to micromanage a large, complex organization
• Don’t let bottom-up self-organization go wild
• The best way to control your subordinates is to just point them in the right direction
• Be careful listening to the voice of experience — that voice could be your own
• The organization can’t succeed without passion.

I would add one more parallel: <organisational> learning is about building networks. [I'll try to search for the good reference about this process in our brain].

What would be the  metaphor for KM?

Later:

So far I wasn’t able to find the reference, but I know from somewhere in my studies that within the brain learning is about making connections.

The funny things is that I found something else: Brain-Based Learning article in The Encyclopedia of Educational Technology. And I loved this piece (bold is mine):

Like a symphony orchestra, the various parts of the brain are instruments that play collaboratively to provide meaningful learning. Learning is the music of the brain.

Archived version of this entry is available at http://blog.mathemagenic.com/2002/10/16.html#a280; comments are here.

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