Nand Kishore Chaudhary from Jaipur Rugs on love, collective consciousness and self-management
...cial organisation, I think not just in India, but anywhere in the world... I really liked this idea I read about which is called the Higher School of Unlearning. Can you tell us about what that is? NK Chaudhary: When all my five children joined the business, the business started growing like a wildfire. To su...more
...get their skills without having the knowledge to break the ego of our professionals. I started a learning initiative, which we named Higher School of Unlearning. We made the professionals work with our older, uneducated people in different departments to develop a deep understanding of the business processes....more
...and colleges. We also worked on the philosophy, 'finding yourself through losing yourself'. The more I lose myself, the more I find myself. Learning, unlearning and relearning is a continuous process and it brings the childlike innocence, which is important for the business to follow this in an organic manner...more
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Gary Hamel on busting bureaucracy for good
... at principles and exploring those and what would it look like if we really believed in openness or transparency. Do you also think that there's some unlearning that we have to do from this kind of bureaucratic industrial model that we've all been conditioned into? Both if we're employees, and if we're manage...more
... in ways that we would never behave with friends or with family, but we find ourselves in a game where those skills are required. So I think there is unlearning and relearning that has to take place. Most of all, we have to relearn what it means to be a leader. More books are written about leadership than an...more
...y out of people's way? And so there's a whole new set of skills that are pretty much under under taught and under practiced. So yes, there's a lot of unlearning and relearning. That's going to go on. And so we're working right now on what I would kind of call Twelve Steps for Bureaucrats or Detox for Bureaucr...more
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Pasteur Byabeza on transitioning to self-management at Davis College
...eagues a lot of time to fully embrace the philosophy of self management. You see, as you know, operating in a self managed team requires learning and unlearning certain things. So I can confidently say that some of my colleagues never fully embraced this shift, because different people have different needs an...more
Anna Elgh on self-managing teams and shifting conflicts at Svenska Retursystem
... on and having that faith that it will happen and having that patience that it takes different amounts of time for different people - there's so much unlearning to do and new ways of being to practice, that if you could just hold fast, then, as you've experienced, you come out the other side. Anna Elgh: And I...more
Bill Fischer and Simone Cicero on Haier and the entrepreneurial organisation
...n. So it’ll be interesting to see those people who haven’t come up in that world, fresh from the source, so to speak, what challenges they’ll face in unlearning and learning this new way.
B Fischer: So, one of the things is for sure — the people who run the micro-enterprises, quite a number of those people h...more
Beetroot’s founders on purpose, self-management, and shocking people with trust
...es. And yet, I think still the education system and my understanding is the culture generally in Ukraine is quite hierarchical, so there's still some unlearning to do there I think, and I think it takes people time (even though they have the permission, so to speak) to really get used to: "Oh, I can really ch...more