Leading Organizational Learning

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Leading Organizational Learning brings togethertoday's top thinkers in organizationallearning--including Jon Katzenbach, Margaret J. Wheatley, DaveUlrich, Calhoun W. Wick, Beverly Kaye, and other thought andindustry leaders. This handbook helps business, government, andnonprofit leaders understand how to master learning and knowledgesharing within their organizations. This one-of-a-kind volumeis filled with chapters that directly address the most currentideas, concepts, and practices on the topic of organizationallearning. Acclaimed authors, world-renowned thought, global, andindustry leaders, managing directors, and presidents of leadingorganizations have contributed their original essays to thisprovocative collection. Leading Organizational Learning * Offers ten guidelines to help key employees and knowledgeworkers do a better job of influencing upper management * Demonstrates the best way to move ideas through anorganization * Outlines the principles that facilitate knowledgemanagement * Explains how people learn on the job * Discusses how larger organizations can leverage their"bigness" * Proposes a method of knowledge mapping to effectively organizeand use knowledge in decisionmaking * Outlines the knowledge and attributes integral to the successof today's executives * Discusses passing knowledge from person to person * Explains how consultants can help organizations developideas * Debunks the myths and explores the realities of knowledgemanagement

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"In typical Goldsmith manner, Marshall has brought together agourmet's list of consultants who offer a banquet ofintriguing ideas, succinct stories, and pragmatic practices spicedwith nuggets of wisdom." --Joel A. Barker, coauthor, Five Regions of the Future: ARevolutionary Roadmap to the 21st Century "Leading Organizational Learning holds a remarkablewealth of insight into closing the gap between knowledge andpeople. Every leader hoping to create or maintain a successfulorganization should read this book!" --Vijay Govindarajan, Earl C. Daum 1924 Professor ofInternational Business, and director, William F. Achtmeyer Centerfor Global Leadership at the Tuck School of Business atDartmouth "What is knowledge? How is it embedded in an organization?What are knowledge workers? How can their best thinking beleveraged and applied? These are the questions organizations are(or should be!) struggling with today, and LeadingOrganizational Learning provides a rich sourcebook for findinganswers. It's filled with practical advice and excellentexamples of how the knowledge and learning can be unleashed, thekey to achieving organizational effectiveness today." --Sally Helgesen, author, The Web of Inclusion andThriving in 24/7 "Wasn't it the sage Lao Tzu who once said,'Those who know do not tell: those who tell do notknow.' The contributors to this book do know what we know,and do know what we do not know. Knowing they know, they provide acornucopia of ideas about how to make knowledge management areality, not an academic exercise. I recommend this book highly toanybody interested in creating 'boundaryless'knowledge-sharing organizations." --Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries, The Raoul de Vitryd'Avaucourt Chaired Clinical Professor in LeadershipDevelopment, and director, INSEAD Global Leadership Center,INSEAD "Leading Organizational Learning presents anawesome collection of superstar talent. Marshall Goldsmith, HowardMorgan, and Sandy Ogg have recruited the best in the business toshare their experience and wisdom on the most critical issue inimproving organizations in the new economy -- how to instantlyshare new knowledge so that organizations can stay at the learningedge. If you were to actually apply the lessons from the scores ofcase studies in this book you would be guaranteed a return on yourinvestment that far exceeds anything you're likely to read inany other business book on the shelves today." --Jim Kouzes, coauthor, The Leadership Challenge andEncouraging the Heart, and chairman emeritus, Tom PetersCompany
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