1. Revans, R. W. (1982) The Origins and Growth of Action Learning (Bromley: Chartwell-Bratt), pp. 23–9.
2. The numbers are from Kynaston, David (2008) A World to Build: Austerity Britain, 1945–48 (London: Bloomsbury), p. 185. On the report, see an excerpt in Revans (1982) The Origins and Growth of Action Learning, pp. 30–1.
3. Revans, R. W. (1980) Action Learning: New techniques for management (London: Blond & Briggs), pp. 103–4, 106, 108.
4. Cited in Clutterbuck, David and Crainer, Stuart (1990) Makers of Management: Men and women who changed the business world (London: Guild Publishing), p. 127.