Building the Learning Organization: Achieving Strategic Advantage Through a Commitment to Learning

by Michael J. Marquardt

Book Overview

Learning is the key to success and survival in today's workplace. This essential best-practices toolkit with lessons from world-class leaders - FedEx, Nokia, Alcoa, Whirlpool, Microsoft, and others -... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1904838324
• ISBN13: 9781904838326
• Release Date: June 2011
• Publisher: Nicholas Brealey Publishing
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Insightful!

Okay, so you already know that everyone in your organization needs to be learning new skills and tactics all the time. If you wonder just how to accomplish that, on top of everything else you're doing, turn to Michael J. Marquardt's Building the Learning Organization for step by step guidance. Human resource professor Marquardt introduces the internal systems you need for structured, company-wide learning. In his professorial way, he runs through its dimensions, principles, practices and ideals in detail (all you ever wanted to know and perhaps just a bit more). He provides an instructive general framework, guidelines and sixteen steps to follow in creating a learning organization. He's a man with a plan, system by system, complete with charts, models, principles and subsystems. This tool box for implementation leaves the theoretical reader out of the loop, but we from getAbstract confirm that if you want something you can put into action as an executive, manager or human resource chief, here's your hands-on manual.

Best book on the foundations of a learning organization!

This is a highly practical book with lots of specific principles and steps for building a learning organization. Also several excellent examples of learning organizations from around the world.

Nuts-and-bolts of a Learning Organisation

This is one of the few books that manage to get into the guts of learning organisations, past conceptual pondering and into nuts-and-bolts of turning the concepts into practices. The structure of this book is somewhat confusing, as it is easy to lose track of the nested levels of subtitles, with about the same size of headings. Several pages long lists do not make it any easier to remember, what is the actual issue of the chapter in question. This book is widely used in management courses but I would not require my students to memorize those lengthy lists of connected tidbits. In my opinion this is much more applicable as a thought provoker or even a reference for a manager of an emerging learning organisation. This is not a bad book, far from it. Especially the use of actual cases to stress the point of each chapter works very well.

Clear and practical book on building a learning organization

Excellent case studies; based on best theories and practice

The Excellent Book

If you want to learn "The Learning Organization", start with this book. You can understand easily what the LO is and how to build it