ABSTRACT
Marquardt and Waddill have shown in Chapter 3 how an understanding of ways individuals learn helps us appreciate why action learning might be so potent for individual development. The further challenge is to comprehend why action learning might be beneficial for extending organizational and collaborative capacity or, put in other words, for engaging second-and thirdperson level enquiry (Reason and Bradbury, 2001). This is not simply a question of the sum of parts, in the sense of the greater the number of qualified people the greater an organization’s capacity. We have also to look to two further questions: first, where is the individual, organization, and system in the intent of the action learning intervention?; and, second, what is ‘an’ organization that ‘its’ capacity might be increased?
