Learning for Flexible Strategy

Mintzberg describes a "Learning School" of strategy that offers some neat possibilities for how to make strategy flexible.

The "Learning School" incorporates various elements from the last 20+ years to offer a radical approach to that flexibility problem:  What if an organization's strategy included organizational learning? What if organizational learning actually drove strategic change?

That is, what if the organization focused time and attention on

• questioning strategic assumptions,
• scanning the environment for emerging threats and opportunities, 
• engaging in dialog about the complexities and confusion in the environment, 
• learning in an emergent way, and 
• coming together about new directions based on a new shared understanding?

Emergent learning?  Maybe the right way to deal with the environmental emergent-cies we all see smashing over-considered strategies?

And, with the whole organizational learning opus on the table, what if an organization were smart and bold enough to combine a few things, as a test?  Specifically:

Action Learning
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Executive small group
(chartered to find and recommend strategic modifications)
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New technologies for virtual group work
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An agile, adaptive, approach to strategy revision

Could be a game-changer...