Learning Partnerships: How Leading American Companies Implement Organizational Learning

Learning Partnerships: How Leading American Companies Implement Organizational Learning, by Robert Mai, is the first book to take organizational learning from concept to reality, showing how companies are implementing basic learning principles to meet their business challenges. Written from a first-hand perspective by an executive with a major performance improvement company, the book illustrates what organizational learning actually looks like in a wide variety of industries, and how it is designed and managed.
As companies are continually being challenged by changing markets and technology, organizational learning is increasingly becoming a key strategy for staying competitive. Based on cases drawn from more than 20 progressive American companiesincluding American Airlines, Ameritech, Cadillac, Ford, Georgia-Pacific, and Saturn - Learning Partnerships addresses key issues facing organizations today, including how organizational learning occurs; why "the learning organization" can be a misleading term; the three key sources of organizational knowledge-building; the leading barriers to organizational learning, and how to overcome them; how teams can contribute to organizational learning; and ways to stimulate and reinforce knowledge-building behaviors.

Robert P. Mai, Ed.D. is a vice president at Maritz Performance Improvement Company.