To compete with today's increasing globalization and rapidly evolving technologies, individuals, and organizations must take their ability to learn - the foundation for continuous improvement, operational excellence, and innovation - to a much higher level. In Learn or Die, Edward D. Hess combines recent advances in neuroscience, psychology, behavioral economics, and education with key research on high-performance businesses to create an actionable blueprint for becoming a leading-edge learning organization.

Learn or Die examines the process of learning from an individual and an organizational standpoint. From an individual perspective, the audiobook discusses the cognitive, emotional, motivational, attitudinal, and behavioral factors that promote better learning. Organizationally, Learn or Die focuses on the kinds of structures, culture, leadership, employee learning behaviors, and human resource policies that are necessary to create an environment that enables critical and innovative thinking, learning conversations, and collaboration. The volume also provides strategies to mitigate the reality that humans can be reflexive, lazy thinkers who seek confirmation of what they believe to be true and affirmation of their self-image. Exemplar learning organizations discussed include the secretive Bridgewater Associates, LP; Intuit, Inc.; United Parcel Service (UPS); W. L. Gore & Associates; and IDEO.

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8 hours and 44 minutes
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Edward D. Hess
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Stefan Rudnicki
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March 31, 2015
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English
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B00UID04FU
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Listening Length	8 hours and 44 minutes
Author	Edward D. Hess
Narrator	Stefan Rudnicki
Whispersync for Voice	Ready
Audible.com Release Date	March 31, 2015
Publisher	Random House Audio
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B00UID04FU
Best Sellers Rank	#122,838 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) #341 in Organizational Behavior (Audible Books & Originals) #530 in Business & Organizational Learning #1,332 in Business Management (Audible Books & Originals)

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Armando Izquierdo

LEARNING: A prime human function

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 8, 2015

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Besides breathing and eating as vital functions that keep us alive, LEARNING has emerged as an indispensable skill to survive as individuals and organizations. Paradoxically, our body is such a perfect organism that search for minimum energy paths, and learning is an energy intensive process, as a result, the human learning machine prefers to operate in a low gear—on autopilot—as much as possible to conserve energy. We require high levels of mindfulness, deep understanding, and a lot of practice, to learn how to learn and to overcome the intrinsic human barriers that inhibit an efficient learning. Such barriers will surprise many LEARN OR DIE readers due to their psychological origins observed in day to day individuals behavior, such as: the strength of our ego defense systems; our existing views of the world—our mental models—; the lack of critical thinking and collaboration processes; among others that commonly are stimulated by some organizational cultures and leadership styles. This is a must-read topic for those interested in getting a deeper understanding on how to get the most from organizational learning.

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Uptopia: A User’s Manual For the Learning Organization I Would Like to Build

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 18, 2018

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As I think about the type of organization I want to build, this may be the most compelling book I’ve ever read. I’ve never read a book where I relate so well to the material that I felt like I could have written it, yet managed to gain so much knowledge and insight despite familiarity with the topic. This book is what I want my team and organization to be; it’s what *I* want to be be.

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Sean P Ryan

Learn and Prosper!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 12, 2015

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I learned long ago from a wise professor that perhaps the only truly sustainable competitive advantage is an above market rate of learning. The question then becomes, "How does one increase the rate of learning in an organization?"

As Professor Hess enjoyably outlines in his excellent book, it begins with an understanding of how the human mind works and how high-performing organizations prioritize and deliver critical feedback.

Most businesses are less than the sum of their parts. Learn or Die is a challenge to that wasteful inequality.

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Michael Hebert

Excellent Read. The only reason I don't give fice ...

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 7, 2015

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Excellent Read. The only reason I don't give fice is that it did not have as much "science" in it as I was expecting, and a bit more "business" than I expected. I would have like to have seen a bit more of the research and reports.

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Jared

Great book and fun read!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 29, 2014

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I thoroughly enjoyed this book and will use it as a guide for my own learning organization. I looked all the discussions about system 1 and 2 thinking, the faults we have in our decision making and ways to cause deeper thought for any discussion or decision. This was a wonderful book that I would suggest to all my business associations and friends.

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Brian Kight

Thorough research, disciplined execution

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 24, 2015

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This book is an in-depth combination of academic research, study, and theory validated in real organizations, with real leaders, real people, and real results. Most leaders will read all of this and implement some of this and execute none of this. Those that do execute the principles in this book will see significant return on energy invested.

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geohook

A Must Read

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 4, 2014

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One of the best of new books. General Clark is smarter than hell, and one of the most knowledgeable strategic thinkers in the Army. If you want a clear picture of world and military events you need to read this book. Right up to date on what is going on in the world and the challenges economically, financially and politically.

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Marc H. Farrell

Discover your learning story

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 16, 2014

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By using his personal growth story as an illuminating and authentic illustration, Learn or Die provides you the tools and inspiration you need to discover your own learning story. Loaded with real world case studies, interesting stories, and academic research, this book will satisfy both the scholarly and pragmatic business mind.

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Emanuele Arabia

Not adding much to his previous books

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on November 26, 2022

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Stand-alone is likely a five star book. However, having read his previous book “Humility is the new smart” I don’t see much value add in this one. Disappointing

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A well written book illustrative of learning literature, could ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on February 20, 2015

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A well written book illustrative of learning literature, could be used as one of many primers on the subject, giving an indication of where to go to read in more detail. The author labours one example (no spoilers), but on a whole easy-reading style facilitates clarity.

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Generally interesting. Particularly the chapter on Bridgewater

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on December 21, 2020

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Great chapter on Bridgewater

Dominique Arrighi

Synthèse de l'état de l'art en matière d'apprentissage organisationnel

Reviewed in France 🇫🇷 on June 15, 2018

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Dans ce livre, Edward D. Hess, professeur de stratégie à la Darden School of Business de l'Université de Virginie, présente l'état de la connaissance en matière d'apprentissage organisationnel. Pas de théorie nouvelle, mais une synthèse des recherches effectuées, souvent de façon disparates, depuis que ce sujet est devenu central dans la réflexion managériale.
La lecture est facile, dans un anglais accessible.
Un livre à recommander à tous ceux qui pensent, comme l'auteur, que la capacité d'apprentissage, dans ce monde en constante évolution, est un facteur clé de succès.

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Nilanjan Majumdar

Excellent read !!

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on January 8, 2017

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An excellent presentation how to leveraging Learning to build an Organisation

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