Learning Agility: Many Questions, a Few Answers, and a Path Forward

Invited Response Article

D. Scott DeRue, Susan J. Ashford, Christopher G. Myers
Industrial and Organizational Psychology, vol. 5(3), 2012 Sep, pp. 316-322

DOI: 10.1111/j.1754-9434.2012.01465.x

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DeRue, D. S., Ashford, S. J., & Myers, C. G. (2012). Learning Agility: Many Questions, a Few Answers, and a Path Forward. Industrial and Organizational Psychology, 5(3), 316–322. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1754-9434.2012.01465.x

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DeRue, D. Scott, Susan J. Ashford, and Christopher G. Myers. “Learning Agility: Many Questions, a Few Answers, and a Path Forward.” Industrial and Organizational Psychology 5, no. 3 (September 2012): 316–322.

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DeRue, D. Scott, et al. “Learning Agility: Many Questions, a Few Answers, and a Path Forward.” Industrial and Organizational Psychology, vol. 5, no. 3, Sept. 2012, pp. 316–22, doi:10.1111/j.1754-9434.2012.01465.x.

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@article{d2012a,
  title = {Learning Agility: Many Questions, a Few Answers, and a Path Forward},
  year = {2012},
  month = sep,
  issue = {3},
  journal = {Industrial and Organizational Psychology},
  pages = {316-322},
  volume = {5},
  doi = {10.1111/j.1754-9434.2012.01465.x},
  author = {DeRue, D. Scott and Ashford, Susan J. and Myers, Christopher G.},
  month_numeric = {9}
}

This article responds to and extends the commentaries offered in response to our focal article on learning agility. After summarizing the basic themes in the commentaries, we use this response to clarify points that were unclear in our original article and push back on certain points raised in a few of the responses. In particular, we reframe the rigor–relevance debate from an “either–or” to a “both–and” discussion, clarify the relationship between learning agility and ability to learn, explain how learning agility in organizations moves beyond cognition, and describe how exchanges such as the one we have collectively engaged in here are central to progressing the scientific study on learning agility and its effective use in practice.