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This collection of papers explores the concept of the 'Learning Company', giving examples of how the learning company can be applied to the changing face of the modern workplace and exploring the new ideas associated with these developments. The articles found within the book are divided under three sub-headings, which are: (1) Ideas and issues; (2) Applications; and (3) Further thoughts. The articles are: The changing view of learning / Peter Hawkins; Organizations, values and learning / Peter Binns; Power, politics and ideology / John Coopey; The spirit of the learning company / Julia Davies; Energies of organization and change / Paul Tosey; Levels of learning in organizations / David Sutton; Creating space in the learning company / Alan Phillips; Participation in the learning company / Chris Blantern and John Belcher; William Blake's fourfold vision and consciousness in organizations / David Rooke and Jackie Keeley; What is organizational biography? / Mike Pedler; Organizational biography and organizational learning: Weldrick: a case study and commentary / Mike Pedler; Learning to achieve transformation in health / Hilary Lines and Bob Ricketts; The never-ending journey: how, with the help of organization development, a little bit of the NHS in Essex has started to change by putting consumers before professions and bureaucracy / Margaret Attwood and Chris Minett; Becoming a learning organization: how to as well as why / Michael Pearn, Robert Wood, Johanna Fullerton and Ceri Roderick; Engaging and confronting the personal responsibility of the learning company perspective - adding new skills to old / Jim Butler; Facilitating individual and organizational change from the inside: the use of internal change agents in the NHS in Scotland / John Edmonstone and Maggie Havergal; Business schools as learning companies / David Ashton; Learning amoeba: supporting individual managers during rapid change / Malcolm Stephenson; Worlds apart? / John Mackmersh; Turning the environment from a threat into an opportunity / John Gunson.