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Learning Agility: Spanning the Rigor–Relevance Divide

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 January 2015

Adam Mitchinson*
Affiliation:
Columbia University
Nathan M. Gerard
Affiliation:
Columbia University
Kathryn S. Roloff
Affiliation:
Columbia University
W. Warner Burke
Affiliation:
Columbia University
*
E-mail: [email protected], Address: Teachers College, Columbia University, Box 6, 525 West 120th Street, New York, NY 10027

Abstract

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Copyright
Copyright © Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2012 

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Footnotes

All authors listed contributed equally to this commentary.

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