Action Learning How the World's Top Companies are Re-Creating Their Leaders and Themselves

by Dotlich, David L.; Noel, James L.

• ISBN13: 9780787903497
• ISBN10: 0787903493
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-04-30
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass

Summary

A Strategic Boot Camp for Leadership Development "David Dotlich has worked with top management of the best companies to deliver Action Learning programs for over fifteen years. His insights into how leaders develop and his experience as a coach and executive are captured in this excellent book." --Arnold Kanarick, executive president and chief human resources officer, The Limited Plug into a dynamic leadership development process custom made for today?s rapidly changing, technology-driven business environment. Unlike traditional classroom-style programs, Action Learning engages managers in emotionally intense, team-oriented experiences that directly address the immediate strategic needs of the organization. Here, authors Dotlich and Noel detail the many Action Learning sessions they?ve conducted at Shell, Ameritech, Citibank, and other leading corporations that have used Action Learning to quickly and successfully implement a variety of tactical and quantum change initiatives. Readers benefit from a clearly defined framework they can use to construct an Action Learning program of their own--a program that gives companies the power to re-create themselves by first re-creating their leaders.

Author Biography

DAVID L. DOTLICH, former executive vice president of Honeywell and Groupe Bull, is an indepAndent consultant and executive coach whose clients include Johnson & Johnson, Nike and Arthur Andersen. JAMES L. NOEL, is vice president of executive development for Citibank.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi	(4)
Acknowledgments	xv	(4)
The Authors	xix
Introduction	1	(12)
Part One: Action + Learning = Change	13	(56)
1. The Action Learning Framework	13	(22)
2. Stories of Action Learning in Action: Three Types of Action Learning	35	(14)
3. Why Change? Rising to the Challenges of the New Business World	49	(20)
Part Two: Putting Action Learning to Work	69	(126)
4. You Can't Buy Leadership: Transforming Leaders in Place	69	(14)
5. Growing Global Leaders	83	(16)
6. Breaking the Boundaries Between Functions and Business Units	99	(16)
7. Reconceptualizing the Business	115	(20)
8. Releasing Fresh Thinking and Independent Action	135	(14)
9. For Companies to Learn to Change, People Must Learn to Change	149	(12)
10. Fusing Technology and the Business	161	(10)
11. Removing the Barriers Between Customer and Company	171	(14)
12. Reaching to the Future	185	(10)
Resources	195	(10)
A. Recommended Readings	195	(2)
B. Action Learning Examples	197	(8)
Index	205