This poem first appeared on the sister site to Work in Words, 'Other Words'. It is striking how much of the message contains a set of serious messages about life in organisations. Learning from life's experiences is somehow never as easy as you might think. You have to reflect, decide to do the same or to do it differently and then follow through. This can take a nano second or a multitude of them. Either way you must do it to learn.
 
There is often talk of being or becoming a learning organisation. But how can organisations learn if those within them regard repeated errors as serendipitous and do not see they are being duplicitous?