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.
