The Learning Imperative brings together for the first time 15 recent articles from the Harvard Business Review that spell out - with a striking blend of theory and example - the logic, organizational design,, psychological challenges, and key implementation issues of the learning organization. Articulated by such well-known management thinkers as Chris Argyris, Peter Drucker, and George Stalk, the main themes of the book capture the fundamental parameters of organizational innovation : inventing more effective ways to put knowledge to work ; designing appropriate networks that allow for superior execution ; adapting to the social environment as traditional boundaries of hierarchy, function, and geography are dismantled ; managing nondirective change processes that start at the grass roots ; and using properly organized standardization and specialization to create a learning bureaucracy.