Abstract
This study aimed to investigate the concept of learning organisation, and how it has changed in the course of time, to outline a practical strategy for becoming a learning organisation and to consider which is the learning organisation's management model. Our proposal is based on a wealth of is based on a wealth of experience and integrates many of the accepted best practice approaches on the theme of learning organisation with the latest robust academic researches on long-lived and visionary companies and with an analysis conducted through open interviews with 6 CEOs of companies that have demonstrated to be learning organisations during the time. The study is completed by an analysis of their management models.