The Sisyphus Syndrome can cause  your normally smart organization to do some stupid things that work against its success

By Bernard Ross

Being a learning organization isn't about having cool, fun offices, or lots of training for staff, or formal policies for everything — and it's never about having an online knowledge management system. (That last item can bring an organization to its knees financially and intellectually. Somehow IT and learning hardly ever seem to match up in real life.)