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This second volume of two discusses the employment of action learning in different contexts, including healthcare, education, government, military and the business world. Use of action learning in delivery of Future Search Conferences is addressed, as well as action learning in community and civil society and the future of action learning.
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ROBERT L. DIILWORTH was a retired U.S. Army Brigadier General who served as the 54th Adjutant General of the Army. He was also Professor Emeritus at Virginia Commonwealth University where he had responsibility for the graduate program in Human Resource Development. Besides numerous articles, he co-authored several books, including Action Learning: Images and Pathways with Verna J. Willis (2003), and Fogs of War and Peace: A Midstream Analysis of World War III, with Shlomo Maital (2008). Dilworth was a close associate and friend of Reg Revans. In June, 2009 Dilworth was posthumously awarded a Professional Achievement award for his outstanding contributions to action learning.
YURY BOSHYK is Chairman of the annual Global Forum on Executive Development and Business Driven Action Learning, a 15-year-old community of practice. He is also Chairman of The Global Executive Learning Network, a worldwide association of professionals involved in assisting multinationals and others in the design and implementation of executive education. He is editor of Business Driven Action Learning: Global Best Practices (2000), and Action Learning Worldwide: Experiences of Leadership and Organizational Development (2002), and author of articles on geopolitics, the learning organization and global trends. Formerly, he was a professor at IMD in Switzerland, and a graduate of the University of Oxford and the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK.
YURY BOSHYK is Chairman of the annual Global Forum on Executive Development and Business Driven Action Learning, a 15-year-old community of practice. He is also Chairman of The Global Executive Learning Network, a worldwide association of professionals involved in assisting multinationals and others in the design and implementation of executive education. He is editor of Business Driven Action Learning: Global Best Practices (2000), and Action Learning Worldwide: Experiences of Leadership and Organizational Development (2002), and author of articles on geopolitics, the learning organization and global trends. Formerly, he was a professor at IMD in Switzerland, and a graduate of the University of Oxford and the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Action Learning and its Applications
Editors: Robert L. Dilworth, Yury Boshyk
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230250741
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Business & Management Collection, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-57641-4Published: 10 February 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-36627-9Published: 10 February 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-25074-1Published: 10 February 2010
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXX, 307
Topics: Business Strategy/Leadership, Human Resource Management, Management, Corporate Communication/Public Relations