FOREWORD TO THE SECOND EDITION

Good grief!" you might exclaim as you note the number of pages in this

I volume. True, there are a lot of pages, but then there is an incredible amount of worthy information at your fingertips. Fortunately, you don't have to read all the pages at once—or ever.

Were you to read this entire volume at a single sitting (prudence forbid!), it might be easy to feel overwhelmed by the sheer magnitude of the information, assertions, techniques, and procedures described herein. It would be easy to be awed by the seemingly boundless domain under discussion. And, although such an impression might have merit, it would be improper to conclude that learning one's way to the level of a competent practitioner in the performance craft ...

Get Handbook of Human Performance Technology: Principles, Practices, and Potential, Third Edition now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.