ABC of Action Learning (Mike Pedler Library: Developing People & Organizations) [Paperback]

"Revans is the management genius of this country - the thinker we should be drawing on"

"interest in Revans' ideas pours in from around the world"

Reg Revans in this new edition of his classic ABC of Action Learning distils the lessons of more than twenty-five years' experience applying the theory he originated - action learning - the most important idea to have emerged in management and organizational development since the war. Revans' lifelong mission has been to empower the individual manager to act and to learn from action. ABC of Action Learning sets out practical means of realising his vision. In today's rapidly changing environment where learning is needed to innovate constantly, Revans' ideas are more relevant than ever. ABC of Action Learning gives you:

* structures to implement action learning programmes based on an understanding of its operational forms

* insights gained from experiences of launching action learning world-wide and responses of top management to efforts to improve their own enterprises

* conditions for bringing about learning in the organization as a whole system.

(Forms part of The Mike Pedler Library, which currently features Dialogue at Work by Nancy M Dixon, A Concise Guide to the Learning Organization by Mike Pedler and Kath Aspinwall, Resolving Conflicts in Organizations by Rennie Fritchie and Malcolm Leary. New titles to follow soon.)

Professor Reg Revans, creator of action learning, is one of the UK's original business thinkers. A member of the pioneering management team at the National Coal Board after the war, appointed as Britain's first professor of industrial administration in the 1960s, Reg Revans has worked with managers in Britain, Europe, Africa, America and India. He was recently made a Freeman of the City of London.