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In this essential volume, authors DiBella and Nevis outline exactly what it means to be a learning organization. And they offer sound advice on how to increase the learning capabilities of your own company. Here you will discover a powerful array of tools and techniques for leveraging your organization’s unique learning style, as well as a productive framework that will help your company learn more fully and adapt more quickly in today’s volatile marketplace. A practical fusion of theory, original research, and real-world methodology, How Organizations Learn is the most comprehensive work to date concerning this all-important competitive advantage.

Title: How Organizations Learn: An Integrated Strategy for Building Learning Capability
Co-authors: Anthony J. DiBella, Ph.D., is a visiting associate professor of global leadership and organizational behavior at Thunderbird School of Global Management.  He is President of Organization Transitions, Inc., a consulting firm engaged in applied research and training on learning and change issues in organizations.  He holds a Ph.D. in Organization Studies from the MIT Sloan School of Management where he was a visiting scholar at the Center for Organizational Learning. As an educator and thought leader in organizational effectiveness, culture, and change management, Dr. DiBella has consulted with a diverse set of companies and has also taught at Boston College, the University of Massachusetts, and the University of Rhode Island.  His co-author is Edwin C. Nevis.
Price: $40.50
ISBN: 978-0787911072
Publisher: Jossey-Bass; 1st edition (October 10, 1997)
Description: Hardcover, 240 pages
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This book offers a practical, hands-on, pluralistic approach to building organizational and team learning capability that is consistent with OD principles and that carefully explores the links between learning, corporate strategy, and knowledge management. Through a systematic series of applied exercises, it shows readers how learning in, of, and among organizations can be recognized, analyzed, and put into practice through a variety of learning actions and styles that improve organizational performance. It introduces the diagnostic Organizational Learning Inventory and provides guidance on how to use/benefit from it in assessing ANY organizational unit–e.g., department, workgroup, task force, or a company subsidiary.

Title: Learning Practices: Assessment and Action for Organizational Improvement
Author: Anthony J. DiBella, Ph.D., is a visiting associate professor of global leadership and organizational behavior at Thunderbird School of Global Management.  He is President of Organization Transitions, Inc., a consulting firm engaged in applied research and training on learning and change issues in organizations.  He holds a Ph.D. in Organization Studies from the MIT Sloan School of Management where he was a visiting scholar at the Center for Organizational Learning. As an educator and thought leader in organizational effectiveness, culture, and change management, Dr. DiBella has consulted with a diverse set of companies and has also taught at Boston College, the University of Massachusetts, and the University of Rhode Island.
Price: $53.53
ISBN: 978-0130173805
Publisher: FT Press; 1St Edition edition (August 5, 2000)
Description: Paperback, 155 pages
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