Eric Charoux
Over the last two weeks, we have examined in some detail the seven roles the leader of tomorrow will have to assume if he or she is to survive in this new millennium. This week’s article examines the implications of becoming a learning organisation.
For the past decade or so, the terms ‘learning organisation’, ‘culture of learning’ ‘continuous learning’ have dominated the management literature. In this very column, I have often referred to them, highlighting the need for Mauritian companies to undergo a radical change and become supporters and advocates of this world-wide trend if they wish to survive in our globalized environment. What does the term imply though? Here are some of the basic facts that emerge when one surveys the research literature.
