Central to this belief is the conviction that when all members of an organization fully develop and exercise their essential human capacities, the resulting congruence between personal and organizational visions, goals and objectives will release this potential. Generative learning expands a human being's capacity to create the results he or she truly desires. Though learning may be a fundamental human essence, the process of learning is quite complex. When our capacities to think, communicate and cooperate are enhanced, so is our ability to learn. Thus, a learning organization is one which fosters and enhances these activities for its members and members of the community in which it exists.
Traditional organizations change by reacting to events.
They are often change-averse. Learning organizations, by contrast, are vision-led and creative. Their reference points are internal and anchored in the future they intend to create. They embrace change rather than merely react to it. Essentially, the doers are prohibited from thinking.