Learning Network Network
March 2001

The first meeting on 27th March 2001 was hosted by Cable and Wireless and addressed the questions

Leadership - Changing leaders - whose agenda is it?
"Should we be trying to change successful people at the top of organisations or to understand their strengths and put things in place to counter their relative weaknesses? Is change their agenda or ours?"

Developing Creativity / Innovation - drawing learning on supporting innovation from the entrepreneurial mindset of venture capital into a leading creative organisation

The June seminar was hosted by GSK at their new headquarters building and Euan Semple from the BBC joined the group to talk about his passion for Weblogs and their application / influence on organisational learning.

Other themes included merger integration, leadership, research into best practice business schools and balance between being an OD practitioner and managing.

In September the group focused on the value of executive coaching and its links to organisation development hosted by Shell International. In December at a meeting hosted by PwC we explored an individual case study around initiating organisation development activity in a organisation with little experience of OD through influencing strategic planning.

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