According to the author, for organizations to learn, their members must constantly engage in a particular type of prayer, which he calls 'prayers of communication'. The paper begins by describing several such prayers as they occur in everyday organizational settings. It then defines 'prayers of communication' and ruminates about their essential nature and the impact of praying and not praying on individual and organizational learning. The author examines the fear that exploration of prayer generates in many of those engaged in the study of organizational learning and the negative impact that such fear has on understanding how organizations actually learn.
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