Leading Knowledge Workers

Leading workers in learning organizations is different than leading workers in traditional organizations. Learning organizations require leaders at all levels — workers who can direct the organization through significant changes. This means we all need to be open to change and gaining new skills.

But what does it take to lead knowledge workers? “We must learn to lead in new ways to capture the fullness of a learning organization,” says Peter Senge, author of The Fifth Discipline. Not all companies will ever become true learning organizations, but over time, many will become partial learning organizations.