biography
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Revans, Reginald William
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1907– )
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| biography:
| Management consultant, born in London, UK. He studied at London and Cambridge, and was an Olympic athlete in 1928. As deputy chief officer of Essex (1935–45) and as director of education in the coal industry (1945–50), he pioneered ‘action learning’, founding the Action Learning Trust in 1977. He argued that management skills are better learnt by managers reviewing and questioning their experience with their peers, than by studying programmed information. He was professor of industrial administration at Manchester University (1955–65), then worked as a consultant in many overseas countries, and after retirement retained a connection with Manchester, becoming a professorial fellow in action learning in 1986. |
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