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"Contemplation" Examples

The world is moving too rapidly to continue to learn the same lessons over and over. Innovative organizations develop ways to collect and share the lessons that come with each project and activity in order to create wisdom systems.

At the Neenan Company, a Colorado commercial development company, mistakes and "learnings by experience" are so valued that they have a giant gong in their lobby which employees hit when they would like to tell the rest of the company of their learnings.

At American Greetings, the sales of every card is tracked and ranked. In a highly creative organization, this sales rating of each and every product creates an understanding of what sells, what trends are beginning and which are ending.

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