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Volume 4, Issue 2
1 May 1997
The Learning Organization: An International Journal Cover Image for Volume 4, Issue 2
Research Article| May 01 1997

Teamwork, chocolate and Alice

J.O. Burdett
J.O. Burdett
Orxestra, Etobicoke, Ontario, Canada
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-7905
Print ISSN: 0969-6474
© MCB UP Limited
1997
The Learning Organization: An International Journal (1997) 4 (2): 43–52.
https://doi.org/10.1108/09696479710160898

Uses the story of Albert the tortoise to explain the principles of teamwork within an organization. Shows the benefits of this to the organization as a whole, and to Albert the tortoise, the embodiment of the steady worker.

Keywords: Benefits, Organizational development, Teamwork
© MCB UP Limited
1997
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