Title: The learning edge
Description: In today's business world, learning is the key to individual success and corporate survival. Companies across the country are making the ability to learn a condition for employment, one that requires every successful manager's deliberate attention and commitment. Prosperity belongs only to those managers and businesses able to harness the power of knowledge by promoting and maximizing intentional learning at work. Responding to this crucial new market reality. The.

Learning Edge offers a dynamic, concrete approach all managers and executives can use to create the capabilities needed for success. It presents a compelling examination of how individuals and organizations use intentional learning as the activator and accelerator for success. By intentionally converting work experiences into learning opportunities, they move forward with a sense of urgency, exhilaration, and inspiration. The Learning Edge also proposes a bold new.

Prescription for transforming any company into a flexible learning organization that consistently outthinks and outsmarts the competition. It shares rare insights into the way top executives currently are using "learning through experience" to develop their managers and cultivate companywide capabilities. And it provides an in-depth look at how successful companies such as Corning, Eastman Kodak, Motorola, and J.P. Morgan are creating learning organizations that are.

Ready to respond to changing consumer preferences and ever-shortening product and technology cycles. Based on the authors' rigorous 12-year study of how real managers in real companies actually learn, The Learning Edge draws upon charts, graphs, personal action plans - plus interviews with today's top business leaders - to provide a blueprint for intentional learning in the workplace. Point by point, it reveals where and when the best learning occurs, and shows what you.

Should be learning to both increase your value to your organization and position yourself for future success. Moreover, it discloses 5 critical components that make the learning process like a rolling wheel, gathering momentum as it energizes and propels your career forward. The S.M.A.R.T. process tells you how to: select a learning goal by deciding what is important to your company's success and what proficiencies you need to contribute to that success; map out a.

Detailed learning plan with specific action steps; act on your plan so that effective learning is a natural part of your daily routine; review what you accomplished by implementing your learning plan and evaluating how your learned; target your next learning goal and incorporate new skills into your repertoire of abilities. Today, more than ever before, the competitive advantage for forward-looking managers lies at the point where work and learning converge to produce.

Greater productivity. Exceptionally clear and relevant, The Learning Edge arms you with the tools and processes you need to accelerate your own personal achievement, to stimulate others to grow, and to generate unparalleled corporate success.
Subjects: Competition, Executives, Management, Strategic planning, Study and teaching (Continuing education), Training of, Administradores, Administracao, Lernen, Business intelligence