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What is a learning organization? What are
the advantages of creating one? Why should a company want
to become a learning organization? Where does one start?
Learning Organizations: Developing Cultures
for Tomorrow's Workplace contains essays by thirty-nine
of the most respected practitioners and scholars on this
topic. This definitive collection of essays is rich in concept
and theory as well as application and example.
Lead authors include Harvard's Rosabeth
Moss Kanter, London Business School professor emeritus Charles
Handy, and MIT's Fred Kofman and Peter Senge. Senge's bestselling
book, The Fifth Discipline, catapulted this field
of study into tremendous popularity in 1990.
The thirty-two essays in this comprehensive
collection are presented in four main parts:
- Guiding Ideas
- Theories/Methods/Processes
- Infrastructure
- Areas of Practice
Learning Organizations: Developing Cultures
for Tomorrow's Workplace, edited by Sarita Chawla and
John Renesch, is a remarkable collection for the professional
or business reader who wishes to create a culture of learning
in his or her organization.
Sarita Chawla is a principal in MetaLens,
a consulting partnership with her husband Ken Murphy. Until
1993, she served as director of Pacific Bell's Quality Center
in San Ramon, California. She was a convenor of the Bretton
Woods '94 conference on learning organizations and is a
member of the World Business Academy.
John Renesch is editor/publisher of The
New Leaders business newsletter. He has served as editor
or co-editor of several books, including Leadership
in a New Era, New
Traditions in Business, and The
New Entrepreneurs.
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