About the Orangutans... The link between "the culture" (of an organization) en its "learning capacity" really is interesting indeed. Last year I found an article rather old (1990) in which the authors found that learning is more likely to emerge and be strong in organizations where the culture is more result oriented than process oriented / more employee oriented than work oriented / where there is a pragmatic culture rather than a normatic culture. These cultures (promoting learning by their "nature") are caracterized by "trust" and "oppenness". Just like in the story of the monkeys :).

http://essay.utwente.nl/58696/1/scriptie_I_van_der_Willik.pdf (in Dutch unfortunately)