@Mitchell Re: "When do you think organizations will be REALLY ready to take this challenge to the next level, though? I’m finding that many people say they want a learning organization (and will quote Peter Senge ad infinitum) but the cultural change is too much to bear.

Organizations will be REALLY ready to take this challenge right about the time that they realise, that if they don't do something real quick, that huge tidal wave of disruption that has appeared on the horizon, has their name written all over it.

No company is too big too fall. No company is so secure that they can relax. I curated this snippet today from an article about HP - remember them, they make PC's and laptops and printers...

http://simbeckhampson.com/2012/03/26/hp-on-customer-expectations/

"We didn’t make the investments we should have during the past few years to stay ahead of customer expectations and market trends,” Whitman said.

"...also under pressure from tectonic shifts that are taking place at the very foundation of the industry"

This is isn't about being REALLY ready, being REALLY ready is already too late. Trying, thinking, planning, observing, challenging... they are all ways to delay the inevitable. The only way to survive is to move, to act, to decide, to be decisive, to fail, to learn, to fall, to succeed, to learn, to move... and so it goes on. If you don't feel your heart beating on a day to day basis then be afraid, very afraid.

Glad I got that off my chest.