David Megginson, Sheffield Business School
"I found the book full of wise insights, thought-provoking questions and starkly put dilemmas. For people interested in the theory of the learning organisation, and particularly those interested in developing their practice, this book provides many useful route-maps, signposts and warning notices."
Book Description
Creating and developing learning organizations is an essential quest. But much of the available guidance is criticised for being long-winded and difficult to implement. Now, in A Concise Guide to the Learning Organization, Dr Mike Pedler and Kath Aspinwall show leaders and managers facing unprecedented and unpredictable change how to understand, embrace and harness practical principles, models and approaches that will enhance any organization's capacity to learn. Case examples and "snapshots" of organizations working towards learning are used throughout the book - as are activities that help you evaluate levels of development within your organization.
A Concise Guide to the Learning Organization gives you: * a practical understanding of the nature of learning and organizational learning, and how the principles of the Eleven Characteristics of the Learning Company can be applied
* an appreciation of the blocks to learning, its limitations, and the shadow side of organizations
* ideas for future development - how learning organizations can contribute to the wider environment, their vital role in the creation of the Good Society.
(Forms part of The Mike Pedler Library, which currently features Dialogue at Work by Nancy M Dixon, ABC of Action Learning by Reg Revans, Resolving Conflicts in Organizations by Rennie Fritchie and Malcolm Leary. New titles to follow soon.)
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