Optimizing the Power of Action Learning: Solving Problems and Building Leaders in Real Time

This first-of-its-kind 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.

About the Author

Michael J. Marquardt, Ed.D., an internationally noted educator and consultant, is professor of HRD and Program Director of Overseas Programs at The George Washington University, president of Global Learning Associates, and director of The Global Institute for Action Learning. He has trained more than 75,000 managers in nearly 100 countries—in Global 100 companies such as Marriott, Boeing, Nokia, and Samsung; the United Nations; and the governments of Japan, Finland, and Malaysia—on how to use the power of action learning.

Marquardt is an award-winning author of fifteen books, including his most recent bestsellers, Building the Learning Organization, Action Learning in Action, and Global Teams, (all from Davies-Black). A recipient of the International Practitioner of the Year Award from the American Society for Training and Development, he was awarded an honorary Ph.D. degree by The International Management Centre at Oxford, England, for his work and writings in the field of action learning.