What is meant by the learning organisation?

Learning organisation is an organisations where people continually expand their capacity to create the results they truly desire, where new and expansive patterns of thinking are nurtured, where collective aspiration is set free, and where people are continually learning to see the whole together. By working together people can accomplish things that they cannot do individually. A learning organisation builds collaborative relationships in order to draw strength from the diverse knowledge, experience, capabilities, and ways …

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