This book discusses the successes and challenges of leveraging organizational learning in effective strategy development and execution. The authors introduce a framework that helps organizations develop core capabilities to enable them to shift direction rapidly and proactively shape future environments. They also offer a wide selection of cases to illustrate this framework. While some cases highlight fundamental strategic change over time, others are snapshots of mechanisms gradually put in place to jointly optimize learning and performance. There is no one best or right way to leverage strategic organizational learning; different practices may lead to the same outcome and similar practices may lead to different outcomes. The system dynamics underlying such learning - not the simple adoption of one or other practice - are key to success in institutionalizing a performance-based learning approach.

Introduction

Strategic Leverage Through Learning©
Engineered Woods
Happy Land Amusement Park
Leveling Up: How South Side High School Learned to Transform Itself
Linking Leadership Development to Strategy at Ericsson
How Schools Learn to Collaborate and Change Their Cultures by Implementing an Autism Model Program in Inclusive Classrooms
CASAWORKS for Families
Leveraging System Dynamics for Strategic Learning
Using Strategic Leverage Through Learning© to Address Organizational Challenges.