The Faster Learning Organization: Gain and Sustain the Competitive Edge (Jossey-Bass Business and Management Reader Series) - Softcover

Guns, Bob

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0787939021 ISBN 13: 9780787939021

Publisher: Jossey Bass, 1997

Synopsis

Combine speed and knowledge to propel your organization toward success

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This guide takes a unique twist on the concept of a learning organization. It proposes the need for a FASTER learning organization (FLO) and goes one step further than other books you′ve read by specifying the steps necessary to become a FLO.

The author fuses concept, strategy, and application of a FASTER learning organization so your organization can:

∗ Create superior products and services
∗ Use new technology to your advantage
∗ Reduce cycle time
∗ Become more innovative and resilient
∗ Strengthen and reinforce the ability to change
∗ Focus on overall, long–term improvement

The fully illustrated model for creating and maintaining a FLO will help you, your executives, and managers immediately transform your organization into a more profitable company. Plus, the book includes action ideas to help bring employees at all levels into the process.

Enjoy the advantages of a faster learning organization by following the author′s unique model, which includes a vision, three strategies, specific tactics and skills, and measurement and reinforcement tools.

Here′s all you need to know to create an organization that learns faster and stays ahead of its competition.

Read it in just 2 Hours!

About this title

About the Author

BOB GUNS has been involved in learning and development throughout his career, first as an educator and then as a business consultant. As principal of Probe Consulting (based in Summit, New Jersey), Guns focuses on helping such clients as Merck & Co., Allied Signal, Motorola, and NASA become Faster Learning Organizations.

From the Back Cover

Learn how your company can accomplish amazing things in record time. Using NASA′s extraordinary lunar–landing initiative as a touchstone3/4a race that hinged on the rapid development and implementation of unparalleled technology3/4consultant Bob Guns shows today′s organizations how they too can sustain competitive advantage in a hypercompetitive marketplace and position themselves for success well into the future.
In concise, everyday language, Guns not only explains precisely what a Faster Learning Organization (FLO) is, he outlines each step an organization must take in order to become one. Included are all the strategies, tactics, skills, and measurement tools necessary to
· Create superior products and services customers consistently choose
· Use new technology to its full advantage
· Reduce cycle time
· Become more innovative and resilient
· Strengthen and reinforce the ability to change
· Focus on overall, long–term improvement and vision
· Act realistically
As it did for NASA, faster organizational learning can keep your company ahead of the competition and transport it, warp speed, into the 21st century. With this book, Bob Guns provides the launching pad.

From the Inside Flap

Learn how your company can accomplish amazing things in record time. Using NASA′s extraordinary lunar–landing initiative as a touchstone––a race that hinged on the rapid development and implementation of unparalleled technology––consultant Bob Guns shows today′s organizations how they too can sustain competitive advantage in a hypercompetitive marketplace and position themselves for success well into the future.In concise, everyday language, Guns not only explains precisely what a Faster Learning Organization (FLO) is, he outlines each step an organization must take in order to become one. Included are all the strategies, tactics, skills, and measurement tools necessary to? Create superior products and services customers consistently choose? Use new technology to its full advantage? Reduce cycle time? Become more innovative and resilient? Strengthen and reinforce the ability to change? Focus on overall, long–term improvement and vision? Act realisticallyAs it did for NASA, faster organizational learning can keep your company ahead of the competition and transport it, warp speed, into the 21st century. With this book, Bob Guns provides the launching pad.

Edition details

• Publisher: Jossey Bass
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0787939021
• ISBN 13: 9780787939021
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 130