In an article on this week's LearningBuzz website, Mike Pedler, John Burgoyne and Tom Boydell seek to answer the question:

"Pedler, Burgoyne and Boydell help us to understand what a learning company is all about.

They explain why becoming a learning company is a critical project for contemporary organisations where organisational anorexia is a risk arising out of the pursuit of 'leanness' initiatives."

This is an excerpt from the The Learning Company Toolkit, which will be released by Peter Honey Publications in March 2000.