Leading Organizational Learning brings togethertoday's top thinkers in organizationallearning--including Jon Katzenbach, Margaret J. Wheatley, DaveUlrich, Calhoun W. Wick, Beverly Kaye, and other thought andindustry leaders. This handbook helps business, government, andnonprofit leaders understand how to master learning and knowledgesharing within their organizations. This one-of-a-kind volumeis filled with chapters that directly address the most currentideas, concepts, and practices on the topic of organizationallearning. Acclaimed authors, world-renowned thought, global, andindustry leaders, managing directors, and presidents of leadingorganizations have contributed their original essays to thisprovocative collection. Leading Organizational Learning* Offers ten guidelines to help key employees and knowledgeworkers do a better job of influencing upper management* Demonstrates the best way to move ideas through anorganization* Outlines the principles that facilitate knowledgemanagement* Explains how people learn on the job* Discusses how larger organizations can leverage their"bigness"* Proposes a method of knowledge mapping to effectively organizeand use knowledge in decisionmaking* Outlines the knowledge and attributes integral to the successof today's executives* Discusses passing knowledge from person to person* Explains how consultants can help organizations developideas* Debunks the myths and explores the realities of knowledgemanagement

Figures and Exhibits.Foreword (Niall FitzGerald).Foreword (Frances Hesselbein).Preface.Acknowledgments.Part One: Challenges and Dilemmas.1. Why Aren't Those Specials Selling Today? (ElliottMasie).2. Five Dilemmas of Knowledge Management (Fons Trompenaars andCharles Hampden-Turner).3. Effectively Influencing Up: Ensuring That Your KnowledgeMakes a Difference (Marshall Goldsmith).4. Where "Managing Knowledge" Goes Wrong and What toDo Instead (Niko Canner and Jon R. Katzenbach).5. Knowledge Management Involves Neither Knowledge norManagement (Marc S. Effron).Part Two: Processes That Work.6. The Real Work of Knowledge Management (Margaret J.Wheatley).7. Tangling with Learning Intangibles (Dave Ulrich and NormSmallwood).8. When Transferring Trapped Corporate Knowledge to Suppliers Isa Winning Strategy (Larraine Segil).9. Informal Learning: Developing a Value for Discovery (MarciaL. Conner).10. The Company as a Marketplace for Ideas: Simple but Not Easy(Alexander J. Ogg and Thomas Cummings).11. Knowledge Mapping: An Application Model for Organizations(Spencer Clark and Richard Mirabile).12. Just-in-Time Guidance (Calhoun W. Wick and Roy V. H.Pollock).Part Three: Leaders Who Make a Difference.13. What Leading Executives Know--and You Need to Learn(Howard J. Morgan).14. Rethinking Our Leadership Thinking: Choosing a MoreAuthentic Path (Gary Heil and Linda Alepin).15. Learning at the Top: How CEOs Set the Tone for the KnowledgeOrganization (James F. Bolt and Charles Brassard).16. Unleash the Learning Epidemic (James Belasco).17. Leading: A Performing Learning Art (Alexander B.Horniman).18. What's the Big Idea? The "Little Things"That Build Great Leadership in Organizations (Lauren A. Cantlon andRobert P. Gandossy).Part Four: Changes for the Future.19. Learning Stored Forward: A Priceless Legacy (Betsy Jacobsonand Beverly Kaye).20. Developing New Ideas for Your Clients--and ConvincingThem to Act (Andrew Sobel).21. Making Knowledge Move (Jon L. Powell).22. The Role of Change Management in Knowledge Management (MarcJ. Rosenberg).23. Building Social Connections to Gain the Knowledge Advantage(Susan E. Jackson and Niclas L. Erhardt).Part Five: Case Studies and Examples.24. Some Key Examples of Knowledge Management (W. WarnerBurke).25. Leadership and Access to Ideas (Allan R. Cohen).26. Capturing Ideas, Creating Information, and LiberatingKnowledge (Peter Drummond-Hay and Barbara G. Saidel).27. Learning at the Speed of Flight (Fred Harburg).28. The Audacity of Imagination: How Lilly Is Creating"Research Without Walls" (Sharon Sullivan, BryanDunnivant, and Laurie Sachtleben).29. Developing a Learning Culture on Wall Street: OneFirm's Experience (Steffen Landauer and Steve Kerr).Notes.Index.