Strategic readiness : the making of the learning organization
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Strategic readiness : the making of the learning organization
(The Jossey-Bass management series)
Jossey-Bass, c1994
1st ed
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-192) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Shows executives--anyone concerned with making change happen--how to move beyond the limitations of fixed strategic planning processes and programs to create a flexible, responsive organization that thrives in today's climate of uncertainty: the learning organization. Draws from an extensive study of two hundred change-oriented organizations including Honeywell and Motorola to identify a series of practical actions that can be used immediately to help develop a firm's capacity to learn.
Table of Contents
Prologue: The Call for Learning Organizations
Part One: From Strategic Planning to Strategic Learning: Elements of the Learning Organization
1. The Strategic Learning Cycle: How Learning Organizations Learn to Change
2. Speed, Depth, and Breadth: How Organizations Accelerate Learning
3. Strategic Readiness: How Organizations Prepare to Learn
Part Two: Accelerating Strategic Learning
4. Continuous Learning
5. Improvised Implementation
6. Deep Reflection
Part Three: Building Strategic Readiness
7. Heighten Strategic Awareness: Understand the Need for Continuous Learning
8. Making Learning a Way of Life: Enhancing Individual, Team, and Organizational Learning
9. Become Self-Organizing: Continuously Changing Shape Based Upon Continuous Learning
Epilogue: Improvising the Future: Learning Organizations and Jazz
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