In teaching organizations, leaders see it as their responsibility to teach. They do that becausethey understand that it’s the best, if not only, way to develop throughout a company peoplewho can come up with and carry out smart ideas about the business. Because people inteaching organizations see teaching as critical to the success of their business, they findways to do it every day. Teaching every day about critical business issues avoids the fuzzyfocus that has plagued some learning organization efforts, which have sometimes become athrowback to the 1960s and 1970s style of self-exportation and human relations training.