Optimizing the Power of Action Learning: Real-Time Strategies for Developing Leaders, Building Teams, and Transforming Organizations, Second Edition
- 4h 29m
- Michael J. Marquardt
- Nicholas Brealey Publishing
- 2011
This new edition of the groundbreaking guidebook puts the action in action learning, clearly demonstrating how and why this powerful method for addressing today's increasingly complex organizational challenges actually works. From Saudi Arabia to Singapore, Sweden to South Africa, profiles of such Global 100 leaders as GE, Sony, and Boeing tell the story of the power of action learning to create new products, improve service quality, and transform organizational cultures for competitive advantage and sustained success. The fully revised edition includes examples from the governmental and non-profit world, as well as offering up new better questioning techniques and creative strategies for organizational development.
About the Author
Michael J. Marquardt, Ed.D., is professor of Human Resource Development and International Affairs as well as Program Director of Overseas Programs at George Washington University. Dr Marquardt also serves as President of the World Institute for Action Learning and is the author of 20 books, including The e-HR Advantage, Leading with Questions and Building the Learning Organization. He has trained over 75,000 managers in nearly 100 countries on how to use the power of action learning.
In this Book
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Optimizing the Power of Action Learning—Real-Time Strategies for Developing Leaders, Building Teams, and Transforming Organizations, Second Edition
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Preface
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Emergence of the Power of Action Learning
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The Problem
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The Group
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Questions and Reflection
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Action Strategies
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Individual, Team, and Organizational Learning
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The Action Learning Coach
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Introducing, Implementing, and Sustaining Action Learning in Organizations
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References
