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In his article "Trying to understand the main cultural hurdles to the learning organization concept in France" Dr. Daniel Belet of BLV learning partners makes an insightful analysis of the cultural issues that we face here in France when trying to develop KM approaches and Communities of Practice.
I don't agree with everything though. My first employer, Dassault Aviation, was almost 20 year ago undoubtedly at the leading edge of KM, even by today's standards, and it was a French company. Yes, there is a cultural issue, in the sense that French society has been traditionally highly centralized, but, as I pointed out in a recent post, French society has historically shown some genius in organizing countervailing powers. But the current political environment in France indeed favors autocracy.

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