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New Book Provides Leaders with
a Roadmap to Improve Organization Culture
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Creating a
Learning Culture
Strategy, Technology,
and Practice
Marcia L. Conner
and James G. Clawson
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Praise for Creating A
Learning Culture:
"A
must read for leaders who want sustained performance in today's environment
where new challenges arise faster than our responses."
Art Glenn, Former Vice
President, General Electric
"A
compelling read."
Thomas P. Hill, Program Manager, Advanced Learning
Technologies, Hewlett-Packard
"As
organizations take learning to the next phase, to meet the learning challenge at
the global level, they will benefit from the insights and lessons presented in
this excellent book."
Eilif Trondsen, Director, Learning on Demand, SRI
Consulting Business Intelligence
"Creating a Learning Culture is a book I devoured in several days and will be
referring to for several decades...a practical book about what it takes to
prosper in today's complex, information-bloated, topsy-turvy world."
Jay Cross,
CEO, Emergent Learning Forum and Founder, Internet Time Group
"Continuous, accelerated organizational learning represents the key
discriminator between winners and losers. I strongly recommend this book to
those who want to be counted amongst the winners!"
Richard Bozoian, Director of
Learning and Organizational Development, BAE Systems
"You will want to have Creating a Learning Culture within your grasp at
all times... You can spend a second flipping open to almost any page, or take a
whole sabbatical to really absorb it all, and in either case your time will be
amply rewarded with new insights, inspiration and ideas."
Wayne Hodgins,
Strategic Futurist, Director of Worldwide Learning Strategies,
Director of Strategic
Executive Services, Autodesk Inc.
"...an indispensable resource... I would highly recommend this book as a quick
launch for any serious student of organizational learning and a wonderfully rich
reflective work for those who have a passion to create a more rewarding and
innovative workplace."
Verna Allee, President of ValueNet Works, author The Future of Knowledge:
Increasing Prosperity through Value Networks
"...fascinating... touches on a broad array of topics central to the task of
taking learning seriously. From technology to metrics, from trust to tools —
it's all there, with frameworks, philosophies and plenty of real life stories."
Jeanne Liedtka, former Chief Learning Officer, United Technologies Corporation
"This powerful and unique collection of essays excited me with its picture of a
strong learning culture and its practical insights on how to create one."
J.
Randolph New, Professor of Management Systems, Robins School of Business,
University of Richmond
"This collection of condensed matter metalearning moved my cheese in so many
dimensions that I would suggest the traffic warning 'Read Slowly: Curve Ahead'.
Each essay develops Learning Culture from a different perspective, including the
corporate learning officer, the organizational psychologist, the human capital
management consultant, the technical visionary and (pardon the word) the social
networkologist. In the world's current change-acceleration mode, we are better
learning learning."
John Sall, co-founder and executive Vice President, SAS
Institute
Creating A Learning Culture
(Cambridge University Press, Publication date: September 1, 2004) explores how
strategy, practice, and technology can achieve immediate lasting results by
encouraging curiosity and learning at all levels of an organization.
With examples from major international organizations that use
learning-focused approaches,, including General Motors, Cigna, and WD-40
Company, Creating A Learning Culture documents leading-edge
research into how and why people best work together when learning as they work.
Written for business leaders and educators seeking innovative approaches to
cultural transformation, with learning at the center of their corporate
strategy, Creating a Learning Culture is for anyone who is
interested in working toward a more dynamic learning environment.
Contributors
Douglas K. Smith, John Seely Brown, Estee Solomon Gray, Harlan Cleveland,
William M. Snyder, Etienne Wenger, Karen Kocher, Mitch Ratcliffe, David Grebow,
Laurie Bassi, Karen L. McGraw, Dan McMurrer, Edgar H. Schein, Rob Cross, Lisa
Abrams, Andrew Parker, Wendy L. Coles, Marc J. Rosenberg, Eileen Clegg, Clark N.
Quinn, Dori Digenti, Brook Manville, Brenda Wilkins, Gunnar Brückner, Garry O.
Ridge, Cliff Figallo, Marcia L. Conner, James G. Clawson
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Marcia L. Conner
is Managing Director of Ageless Learner, a think-tank and advisory services
practice focused on learning and adapting across the life span, and Co-founder
of the Learnativity Alliance, bringing people together to work at the
intersection of learning, productivity, activity, and creativity. She is a
frequent speaker and provocateur in adult education, human capital development,
innovative leadership, organizational change, and learning culture. She serves
as senior counsel and executive coach to leaders around the globe. She is a
Fellow of the Batten Institute at the Darden Graduate School of Business
Administration at the University of Virginia. She was Vice President of
Education and Information Futurist for PeopleSoft and Senior Manager of
Worldwide Training at Microsoft. She has studied, lived, and worked on three
continents. She is author of Learn More Now (John Wiley & Sons, 2004),
and coediter of Creating a Learning Culture (Cambridge University Press,
2004) with James G. Clawson.
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James G. Clawson is a Professor at the University of Virginia’s Darden Graduate School of
Business Administration, where he has taught since 1981. He was a visiting
professor at the International University of Japan in 1991 and taught at Harvard
Business School before moving to Virginia. Clawson has consulted with
corporations and organizations on issues of organizational design, management
development, career management, change management, leadership development, and
human resource management. He has designed and led or taught in a number of
Darden School executive education programs, including Power and Leadership.
He has written hundreds of cases on management and career issues and several
books, including Level Three Leadership (Prentice Hall, 1998). He
received a bachelor’s degree in Japanese language and literature from Stanford
University, an M.B.A. from Brigham Young University, and a Ph.D. in
organizational behavior from Harvard Business School.
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Title:
Creating a Learning Culture
Author:
Marcia L. Conner and James G. Clawson
ISBN: 0-521-53717-7 $37.99, paperback
ISBN: 0-521-83017-6 $80.00, hardback
Cambridge
University Press
Publication date: September 1, 2004
Pages: 374 pages
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