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Bob Garratt is editor of the Successful Manager and Strategist series and author of ‘The Learning Organization’, ‘Learning to Lead’ and ‘The Fish Rots from the Head’. He has worked in many European countries, the USA, Australia and New Zealand and has been developing management education in China and Hong Kong since 1976. He lives in north London.

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Practical and provocative, this book by one of the world's experts in management education offers a fresh perspective on the way organisations work.

Since the first publication of this seminal work in 1986, the concept of the Learning Organisation has grown ever more important and become one of the most written and talked about management practices.

As our world becomes more complex and uncertain it is crucial for both individuals and organisations to learn regularly and rigorously form their work to enable them to adapt rapidly, capably and continuously to their changing environments – giving them a much lighter chance of surviving and developing.

Bob Garratt proposes a theory of organisations as 'learning systems' in which success depends on the ability of managers to become 'direction-givers' and on the organisation's capacity for learning continuously.

As well as considering the work of other business thinkers, Garratt employs a wide range of experimental models and graphic illustrations to demonstrate both the stagnation, which results from the absence of these skills, and the dramatic effects of their positive implementation.

Fully revised and with a new introduction, 'The Learning Organisation' is exciting, informative and a challenge to all directors, management educator and the business community at large.