Alaa Garad

A comprehensive guide to developing a culture of learning and education within your business. In any kind of organization, learning has become a vital part of the growth and development process, but it only produces effective results if it is pursued strategically and embedded deeply into the culture of the workplace. In recent years, there has been a growing consensus that, for many organizations, learning is their only sustainable competitive advantage – ensuring a committed and engaged workforce that is positioned to identify and exploit business opportunities in an increasingly volatile and uncertain world. This makes it essential for leaders and senior managers to investigate the full range of learning processes and to understand exactly how individual, group, machine and organization-wide learning can produce long-lasting results for individuals as well as for the company itself. Backed by new academic theory, yet designed to be completely accessible to a business readership, The Learning-Driven Business highlights the importance of Organizational Learning (OL) for organizations which wish to remain competitive and profitable, before clarifying the various pathways and frameworks that can lead to success. With the onset of automation and artificial intelligence, as well as the proliferation of redundancies and the economic instability of modern times, organizations and their employees must prioritise effective OL in order to overcome these challenges and remain competitive and relevant in the 21st century. This book is a guide for all business leaders and academics looking to adapt to the changing world through OL, using Garand & Golds’ unique and original academic model.

Have you ever thought of why companies like Apple, Microsoft, and Xerox are great companies and why they have sustained excellence over the years? Or why some countries like Finland, Norway, and Denmark have some of the best public services in the world, keeping them at the top of the world happiness index for decades? And why some individuals are achieving better results than others? On the other hand, have you thought of why 50% of the Fortune 500 disappear every 10 years? Or why some countries stagnate in the same place for decades, sometimes becoming worse in every aspect? It is not only about leadership, not only about people, not about technology, and not just about fortune. So, what is it? It is LEARNING. Learning is the only sustainable competitive and collaborative advantage that an individual, an organization or a government can have. Without learning, we repeat our mistakes and become worse, but with learning, we find solutions to our fundamental problems. If we are able to learn effectively and apply what we learn, we will become better in every aspect. Individuals will unleash their potential and accomplish what they aspire to. Organizations will realise their visions and accomplish their strategic objectives, government agencies will satisfy their customers and improve the quality of life; ultimately, we will have life-long learning nations. The challenge with learning is that it is so complicated because people and organizations learn in different ways and different speeds. There is no 'one-size-fits-all, ' yet we need some guidelines. We need to see some examples so that we can learn from them; we need to know what to do. As Edward Deming once said, people do not mind doing their best, but they need to know what to do. Developed by Alaa Garad and Jeff Gold the Learning Driven-Organization model answers to the most difficult questions about performance improvement, excellence, resilience and sustainability; the Learning-Driven Organisation Model LDO] comprises of three subsystems and covers all the three levels of learning: Individual, Team and Organisation-wide. The model caters for 8 stakeholders, offers more than 46 advantages to organisations and their stakeholders and it is informed by evidence from research and builds on review of an enormous number of documents, records, manuals, emails, and guidelines (over 3,000 artifacts)