Preface
Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.
Plato
When I wrote the first edition of this book in 1999, I had no idea that it would sustain such a long run and continue to retain its initial focus fifteen years later. Back in the day, needs assessment was in its nascent stages and the majority of books on the subject focused mostly on theory rather than practice. By cutting to the chase, the simplicity of the first edition, with its toolkit, provided just the formula that human resource development (HRD) professionals needed to carry out on-the-job needs assessments. In the ...
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