Learning Organizations : Developing Cultures for Tomorrow's Workplace

What is a learning organization? What are the advantages of creating one? Why should a company want to become a learning organization? Where does one start?

Learning Organizations: Developing Cultures for Tomorrow's Workplace contains essays by thirty-nine of the most respected practitioners and scholars of this topic. This definitive collection of essays is rich in concept and theory as well as application and example.

Lead authors include Harvard's Rosabeth Moss Kanter, London Business School's Professor Emeritus Charles Handy, and MlT's Fred Kofman and Peter Senge.

The thirty-two essays in this comprehensive collection are presented in four main parts:

1. Guiding Ideas
2. Theories/Methods/Processes
3. Infrastructure
4. Arenas of Practice

Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction : Beginner's Mind

Part I : Guiding Ideas
Chapter 1 : Communities of Commitment: The Heart of the Learning Organizations
Chapter 2 : Managing the Dream
Chapter 3 : Ahead of the Wave: Valuing Gender Perspectives in Learning Cultures
Chapter 4 : Mastering Change
Chapter 5 : The Renaissance of Learning in Business
Chapter 6 : The Transformational Leader: The Wellspring of the Learning rganization
Chapter 7 : Why Smart Organizations Don't Learn

Part II : Theories/Methods/Processed
Story:
Chapter 8 : Stories for Learning: Exploring Your Circumstances
Chapter 9 : The Seventh Story: Extending Learning Organizations Far Beyond Business
Dialogues:
Chapter 10 : Dialogue: Capacities and Stories
Chapter 11 : Mindshift: Strategic Dialgoue for Breakthrough Thinking
Chapter 12 : Language as Action: Linking Metaphors with Organization Transformation
Coaching:
Chapter 13 : Generative Coaching: A Surprising Odyssey
Systems:
 Chapter 14 : Building Learning Laboratories to Create More Effective Distributed Decision Making
Chapter 15 : FASTBreak: A Facilitation Approach to Systems Thinking Breakthroughs
Tools:
Chapter 16 : The DNA of the Learning Organization
Chapter 17 : Wisdom at Work: An Inqurity into the Dimensions of Higher Order Learning

Part III : Infrastructure
Chapter 18 : Learning Communities: An Alternative to the "Expert Model"
Chapter 19 : Learning Out of Context
Chapter 20 : Vitalizing Work Design: Implementing a Developmental Philosophy
Chapter 21 : Development Strategies for the Knowledge Era
Chapter 22 : The Faster Learning Organizations (FLO)
Chapter 23 : Managerial Practice Fields: Infrastructures of a Learning Organization
Chapter 24 : Learning as an Organization: A Journey Into Chaos

Part IV : Arenas of Practice
Chapter 25 : The Challenge of Stewardship: Building Learning Organizations in Healthcare
Chapter 26 : Restructuring Education: Designing Tomorrow's Workplace
Chapter 27 : Transforming Mental Models through Formal and Informal Learning: A Guide for Workplace Educators
Chapter 28 : Leadership: Quality and the U.S. Navy
Case Studies:
Chapter 29 : Organizational Learning: Medical Metaphor and Corporate Practice
Chapter 30 : Shared Values: Nutrients for Learning
Chapter 31 : Creating a Learning Organization By Accident
Chapter 32 : Beyond Ego to Wisdom: The Eicher Experience

Conclusion
Reflections of Learning from a Gathering
Sarita Chawla Recommended Reading and Resources
How to Contact Authors, Co-Authors, and Co-Editors
Index