Leading Organizational Learning : Harnessing the Power of Knowledge

Leading Organizational Learning brings together today’s top thinkers in organizational learning―including Jon Katzenbach, Margaret J. Wheatley, Dave Ulrich, Calhoun W. Wick, Beverly Kaye, and other thought and industry leaders. This handbook helps business, government, and nonprofit leaders understand how to master learning and knowledge sharing within their organizations.  This one-of-a-kind volume is filled with chapters that directly address the most current ideas, concepts, and practices on the topic of organizational learning. Acclaimed authors, world-renowned thought, global, and industry leaders, managing directors, and presidents of leading organizations have contributed their original essays to this provocative collection. Leading Organizational Learning

• Offers ten guidelines to help key employees and knowledge workers do a better job of influencing upper management
• Demonstrates the best way to move ideas through an organization
• Outlines the principles that facilitate knowledge management
• Explains how people learn on the job
• Discusses how larger organizations can leverage their “bigness”
• Proposes a method of knowledge mapping to effectively organize and use knowledge in decisionmaking
• Outlines the knowledge and attributes integral to the success of today’s executives
• Discusses passing knowledge from person to person
• Explains how consultants can help organizations develop ideas
• Debunks the myths and explores the realities of knowledge management

Marshall Goldsmith has been named by the American Management Association as one of the top 50 thought leaders in business over the past 80 years. This is his 18th book. He is widely recognized as a world authority in helping successful leaders achieve positive change in behavior for themselves, their people, and their teams.
Howard Morgan is an executive coach who has led major organizational change initiatives in partnership with top leaders and executives at numerous international organizations.

Alexander J. Ogg is senior vice president of the Foods Division at Unilever. He is responsible for leadership, learning, and performance within the organization.