Business-driven action learning: global best practices

Many global companies have been focused upon strategic executive development within a competitive environment. Often this has resulted in complex theoretical models which have had little or no practical application or impact. Leading-edge companies worldwide have established best practice in this area. This book shows how action learning can result in the effective and successful implementation of strategic executive development.

DaimlerChrysler : global leadership development using action-oriented and distance-learning techniques / Wolfgang Braun -- Dow : sustaining change and accelerating growth through business focused learning / Pierre Guillon, Robert Kasprzyk and Jeannine Sorge -- DuPont : business driven action learning to shift company direction / Victoria M. LeGros and Paula S. Topolosky -- General Electric's executive action learning programmes / Stephen Mercer -- Heineken, Shell et al : twenty years of consortium action learning / Gordon L. Lackie -- Hoffman La Roche and Boehringer Mannheim : mission impossible? -- executive development during a takeover / Wolfgang Kissel -- IBM : using business driven action learning in a turnaround / Ron Hosta -- Johnson & Johnson : executive development and strategic business solutions through action learning / Ron Bossert -- Motorola : combining business projects with learning projects / Kenneth H. Hansen -- Philips and action learning : from training to transformation / Nigel J. Freedman -- Scancem : 'what did we earn and learn?' Emerging markets and business driven action learning / Miko Weidemanis and Yury Boshyk -- Siemens management learning : a highly i…