The smarter organization : how to build a business that learns and adapts to marketplace needs / Michael McGill, John W. Slocum
- Bib ID:
- 430078
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- McGill, Michael E
- Description:
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- New York : J. Wiley, 1994
- p. cm.
- ISBN:
- 0471598461
- Summary:
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In The Smarter Organization, based on years of hands-on work with some of the world's most successful corporations, McGill and Slocum will show you how to make the idea of the learning organization become a practical reality in your company. Drawing upon real-life examples from over 175 companies, this book reveals what makes for a learning organization and how you can make your company smarter. You will learn how to create a learning culture, how to craft a learning strategy, how to design structures and systems that promote learning, how to motivate a work force through learning, and how to lead a learning organization.
- Full contents:
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- 1. Change Isn't Learning: Developing a Learning Agenda
- 2. Unlearning the Organization: Setting Aside Your Assumptions About Business Success
- 3. Crafting a Strategy for the Tough New Customer: Learning from Success and Failure
- 4. Changing Organizational Landscapes: The Importance of Structure for the Learning Organization
- 5. Information and Systems for Learning
- 6. Creating and Rewarding a Learning Workforce
- 7. Beg, Borrow, and Benchmark: How to Learn from Others
- 8. Becoming a Leader of Learning: How to Model, Mentor, Manage, and Monitor Learning
- 9. The Challenge to Unlearn.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Slocum, John W
- Copyright:
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- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1994
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