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Working Wisdom: Timeless Skills and Vanguard Strategies for Learning Organizations
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More About This Title Working Wisdom: Timeless Skills and Vanguard Strategies for Learning Organizations

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ROBERT AUBREY is an American-born management consultant based in Paris with experience worldwide. He is the author of several books, including Savoir Faire Savoir (Knowing How to Know), winner of the prestigious University of Paris Prix Dauphine for the best book of 1991. PAUL M. COHEN is an experienced writer and journalist, and is the editor of On Achieving Excellence, the premier newsletter on cutting-edge management thought published by the Tom Peters Group.
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Foreword
Part One: Simultaneous Revolutions: The Changing Nature of Work
1. Learning for Survival
2. The Renewal of Practical Wisdom
3. The Career as Personal Development
Part Two: Tactics of Practical Wisdom
4. Accompanying
5. Sowing
6. Catalyzing
7. Showing
8. Harvesting
Part Three: Strategic Imperatives for Implementing Wisdom
9. The Leadership Imperative
10. The Managerial Imperative
11. The Network Imperative
12. The Technology Imperative
13. The Policy Imperative
14. The Partnership Imperative
Conclusion: Working with Wisdom
AppAndix: A Brief History of Practical Wisdom
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"Learning is the most valuable benefit we can offer employees, and our ability as a company to learn faster and better than compeitors is our most valuable competitive resource. Working Wisdom is about how to help people and organizations get smarter--or wiser--every day. No management-speak here; just time-tested strategies for mentoring people and accelerating learning. Nowhere have I found such a thoughtful, practical approach." —Douglas McKenna, general manager, executive and management development, Microsoft Corporation

"An opportunity to gain an insight into the pragmatics of organizational learning. Aubrey and Cohen go beyond the fashionable to show why organizations pursuing this course are gaining competitive advantage in global markets." —Patrick Canavan, corporate vice president and director of global leadership and organizational development, Motorola, Inc.

"A powerful, profoundand most often ignoredview of the process of attaining wisdom. Aubrey and Cohen take the basic learning model and translate it into a practical guide for leaders. This thoughtful, readable, and energetic book was, for me at any rate, the missing link: what I had not previously found in so many discussions of learning organizations and learning networks. Bravo!" —from the foreword by Tom Peters

"Here is indeed a wise book that advances the 'new wave' of thinking about the theory and practice of adult education--the creation of learning organizations and, in fact, a learning society. It is loaded with real-life examples of the strategies available for applying working wisdom in the workplaces. It's new. It's different. It's a treasure chest." —Malcolm S. Knowles, Ph.D., professor emeritus of Adult and Community College Education, North Carolina State University

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