Week OneLearning Organizations are key to helping businesses operate effectively. In this rapidly changing environment, learning organizations acquire knowledge and innovate faster, helping the organization thrive and survive the changing environment. Companies that create a learning organization create a culture that encourages and supports employee learning and takes risks with critical thinking and new ideas. Organizations that support learning allow staff to make mistakes and the learning process learns from those mistakes. Learning organizations and their employees experiment with the best solution and learn from experience. Employees learn when informed by distributing any new knowledge within the organization and incorporating that knowledge into their daily activities. The writer will analyze an article that deals with learning organizations; summarize the author's conclusion and/or recommendation, summarize the writer's conclusion; and how the article applies to the writer's organization. In John Bersin's article, 5 Keys to Building a Learning Organization, Bersin discusses the key points for building learning organizations. Bersin begins by stating that companies should not go back to the 1980s in building corporate universities, as this could be expensive, given that the cost of the corporate education industry is around $135 billion, indicating how expensive education is . So how do organizations minimize these costs? (Bersin, 2012). To help avoid training costs and still embed a learning organization, Bersin has developed five key points, the five key points are:1. Corporate learning is “informal” and HR does not own it: Most companies lead… middle of paper… participate, invest in training or development opportunities, and have an “if it's not broken, don't fix it” which may make the organization less likely to thrive and succeed in a changing environment, as other organizations that have taken on the role of learning organizations have done. The writer advises organizational leaders to consider adopting an organizational learning environment, not only for the benefit of the existing organization and its staff members. Works CitedBersin, J. (2012). 5 keys to building a learning organization. Retrieved from Keys http://www.forbes.com/sites.joshbersin/2012/01/18/5-keys-to-building-a-learning-organization/2/Society for Organizational Learning. (n.d.). Organizational learning: The five disciplines for building learning organizations. Retrieved from http://www.solonline.org/?page=Abt_OrgLearning