QUOTE(A Horse With No Name @ Thu 1st October 2009, 11:44am)
Everybody makes mistakes. The intelligent people are those who learn from their mistakes and go forward to do something wonderful. The stupid ones are those who define others solely by the mistakes they make.
There are individual personal mistakes and there are collective mistakes. It's the latter variety that are especially challenging to overcome and learn from.
Peter Senge has defined and characterized a Learning Organization as one that learns from its mistakes and continually improves its practices so as to avoid repeating the lamentable mistakes of the past.
It is not easy to learn from one's mistakes, nor is it easy to devise and adopt better practices going forward.
The opposite of a Learning Organization is a dysfunctional organization.
Which kind is Wikipedia?