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How to Sustain a Culture of Learning Agility

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The focus of this chapter is on sustaining the benefits from hiring a learning-agile workforce, to ensure that high-potential employees actually realize their potential. Ways of translating learning agility into successful talent management and succession planning practices that ensure retention are introduced.

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Gravett, L.S., Caldwell, S.A. (2016). How to Sustain a Culture of Learning Agility. In: Learning Agility. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59965-0_7

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