What makes organizations smart is not the number of people they employ, but how well and how frequently they are connected. The more quality connections in an organization the more resilient the organization and the faster it can solve problems. There is a link between learning, engagement, community, and organizational success. This book explores how a successful organization, now and in the future, is a learning organization. Work and learning are inextricably linked.

Dr. Nigel Paine has been involved in corporate learning for over 20 years. He has produced learning software and award-winning multi-media materials and has offered development and support to public and private sector companies, large and small. As head of the BBC's learning and development operation, he created a brand new onboarding programme, a comprehensive leadership scheme for over 6,000 staff, and state-of-the-art informal learning and knowledge-sharing network. He left the BBC to start his own company that is focused on building more effective workplaces by promoting learning, creativity, innovation, and value-based leadership and the link between them, speaking at conferences, leading workshops and working with companies in Europe, Brazil, Australia and the United States. He recently completed his doctorate, focussing on the future directions of L&D. He is the former co-academic director of the CLO Doctoral Program at the University of Pennsylvania, which he helped establish.