ABSTRACT

The Power of Collaborative Leadership: Lessons for the Learning Organization helps business leaders realize the promise of organizational learning by sharing the lessons, insights, and best practices gained by two veteran managers and organizational learning pioneers. The book makes organizational learning principles and concepts more concrete by grounding them in the practical experiences of two major companies.

The Power of Collaborative Leadership helps business leaders realize the promise of organizational learning by sharing lessons, insights, and best practices gained by Bert Frydman and Iva Wilson, two veteran managers and organizational learning pioneers. Together with JoAnne Wyer, a professional learning analyst, they show that in order to be effective leaders of business organizations, we must transform an organization's methods of absorbing new information and its ability to transform it into knowledge and wisdom. This book offers some provocative and practical ways to overcome many commonly held assumptions and practices that can actually impede learning and the improvement of the organization.

part |41 pages

The Vision

chapter |20 pages

The Premise and the Promise

chapter |19 pages

The Dilemma

part |136 pages

The Journey

chapter |15 pages

The Compass

chapter |29 pages

The Pragmatist's Path

Bert's Journey

chapter |18 pages

Debriefing Bert's Story

chapter |29 pages

A Visionary Voyage

Iva's Learning Journey

chapter |21 pages

Debriefing Iva's Story

chapter |16 pages

The Double Loop

What Have We Learned?

part |52 pages

Leadership

chapter |26 pages

Leadership

An Inquiry

chapter |24 pages

Reflections on Leadership

part |51 pages

Mapping

chapter |42 pages

The Adaptable Map

chapter |7 pages

A Call to Action