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The Faster Learning Organization: Gain and Sustain the Competitive Edge (The Jossey-Bass Business & Management Series)
 
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The Faster Learning Organization: Gain and Sustain the Competitive Edge (The Jossey-Bass Business & Management Series) (Paperback)

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"Bob Guns has done a masterful job of bringing a critical subject out of the clouds and down to earth where it has relevance in today's complex, global business." — Thomas A. Kayser, manager, organization effectiveness, Xerox Corporation, and author of Mining Group Gold and Building Team Power

"As we build the learning infrastructures that help our organizations and teams innovate and respond to changing customer needs, the Faster Learning Model and the FLO Toolkit found in this book are a key part of two solutions we provide." — Larry Mohl and Tom McCarty, consulting services team, Motorola-Land Mobile Products Sector



Product Description

Combine speed and knowledge to propel your organization toward success

Warren Bennis Executive Briefing Series

This guide takes a unique twist on the concept of a learning organization. It proposes the need for a FASTER learning organization (FLO) and goes one step further than other books you've read by specifying the steps necessary to become a FLO.

The author fuses concept, strategy, and application of a FASTER learning organization so your organization can:

* Create superior products and services
* Use new technology to your advantage
* Reduce cycle time
* Become more innovative and resilient
* Strengthen and reinforce the ability to change
* Focus on overall, long-term improvement

The fully illustrated model for creating and maintaining a FLO will help you, your executives, and managers immediately transform your organization into a more profitable company. Plus, the book includes action ideas to help bring employees at all levels into the process.

Enjoy the advantages of a faster learning organization by following the author's unique model, which includes a vision, three strategies, specific tactics and skills, and measurement and reinforcement tools.

Here's all you need to know to create an organization that learns faster and stays ahead of its competition.

Read it in just 2 Hours!

Product Details

  • Paperback: 129 pages
  • Publisher: Jossey-Bass (December 1997)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0787939021
  • ISBN-13: 978-0787939021
  • Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 6.9 x 0.6 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #3,835,817 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Easy, worthwhile evening read for busy execs, January 16, 2001
By Stephen M Theobald (Cincinnati, OH United States) - See all my reviews
"Learning Organizations" are the latest Org Dev (O.D.) hype. I usually delight in trashing the latest management fad and worthless book to take your money (ala "FISH", by Lundin), but there is something to like here. While under the covers, the concept of the Learning Organization is nothing really new, it encompasses a lot of concepts covered in a wide range of other "fad" books.

A good blend of short case study examples and easy theory. Reminds me of the "In Search of Excellence" format. The theory part is not overdone, and is tied to some simple acronyms, such as DIFFPAT and FLO, which you can remember. Theory of how teams learn and how companies can utilize that learning is what the book is really all about. Gives different strategic approaches based on which area (HR, workgroups, execs) initiates the strategy.

The book would be most helpful if combined with some material or reading about how individuals learn - such as the auditory, visual, and physical styles, and how organizations could create LO's using these elements.

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