The Society for Organizational Learning (SoL) is a global learning community dedicated to building knowledge about fundamental institutional change through integrating research, capacity building and practices. SoL's purpose is to discover, integrate, and implement theories and practices for the interdependent development of people and their institutions.
SoL evolved from a more traditional hierarchical structure as MIT's Center for Organizational Learning into its current more decentralized, chaordic form in 1997. SoL is now expanding into an international organization.
The SoL community currently includes corporations, research institutions, individual researchers and consultants who work together in a self-governing community guided by SoL's purpose, principles and constitution. Although many of SoL's original organizers were themselves management experts (including Peter Senge, SoL's chairperson), they turned to The Chaordic Alliance to guide their efforts to create SoL's dynamic, self-governing organizational design.
Some of the activities currently underway at SoL include:
- Hosting the "Annual Systems Thinker Conference" to enable cross-organizational learning among SoL members;
- Presenting programs to provide experiential exposure to organizational concepts, method and tools;
- Offering an "Executive Champions' Workshop" to network senior executives and spread learning capabilities throughout large organizations;
- Supporting research initiative in the areas of large system change, leadership, and organizational learning assessment.
By escaping the confines of the traditional educational institution, SoL exemplifies how chaordic designs can more creatively integrate the interests and activities of corporate leaders, academic researchers and consultants.
Website: http://www.solonline.org
E-mail: Contact@sol-ne.org |
