Enlarge the frame of management education

“Management education must be designed to create a heightened and enlightened ‘consciousness.’”

Management training has traditionally focused on helping leaders develop a particular portfolio of cognitive skills: left-brain thinking, deductive reasoning, analytical problem solving, and solutions engineering. Tomorrow’s managers will require new skills, among them reflective or double-loop learning, systems-based thinking, creative problem solving, and values-driven thinking. Business schools and companies must redesign training programs to help executives develop such skills and reorient management systems to encourage their application.

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Growing People: The Heart of the Organizational Transformation

Every year companies spend billions of dollars on training and development, trying to help their people become more engaged, more innovative, and better leaders. Training programs excel in... Read more

Story by Pamela Weiss on January 30, 2012 12 Comments

Advanced Management Insight

Web 2.0 provides a revolutionary opportunity to create a system for managing business performance in the form of a neural network of people and information, self-aware, self-monitoring, and self-... Read more

Hack by Tony Salvaggio on July 18, 2011 41 Comments

Music and Leadership: a Perfect Combination

This is the story of BIZZARTS, a concept that was born out of the conviction that art can make an important contribution to the business world, both economically and creatively. What started out as... Read more

Story by Luc Galoppin on January 24, 2012 6 Comments

Building Leaders: Sharing Leadership Development initiative at ING life India

Talent Management practice designed and implemented as a product/process for talent sustainability Objective: To identify and manage talent in the organization as a “... Read more

Story by ramesh dasary on January 17, 2012 0 Comments

Whirlpool University Re-Invents in the Face of the Recession

In a time when many businesses’ budgets were dwindling, Whirlpool University re-invented its learning methodology, yielding higher impacts to the business through skill acquisition. It began as... Read more

Story by Tamara Patrick on September 16, 2011 2 Comments

Getting Value out of New Employees

Every new recruit to a company has to go through an introductory process, where he/she becomes familiar with the company. This is generally a quick survival lesson and then you are sent on your way... Read more

Hack by Kaeden Arnold on August 2, 2011 0 Comments

CoachingOurselves: No money, No time but we need management development that really 'works'!

Three rounds of layoffs, just off-shored our software dev. to Eastern Europe and got acquired by our competitor. The management team and I figured some sort of management development program might... Read more

Story by Phil LeNir on October 9, 2010 19 Comments

Developing Tomorrow’s Talent: a girl, a blog, and 30 days to business impact

Trying to change company culture to one where talent development occurs informally and daily, Accenture developed the 30 Day Challenge: a social experiment using blogging, where 8650 people... Read more

Story by Clare Norman on July 4, 2011 2 Comments

When Success Leads to Failure: Is the way we teach and shape leaders fundamentally broken?

Essentially, because the MBA industry has been teaching leadership and proclaiming to provide satisfactory leadership education and training for a great long while doesn't mean that what we do is... Read more

Barrier by Aaron Anderson on October 26, 2010 12 Comments

Place sustainability on top of the list of strategic goals

Strategic considerations of organizations today require a systemic approach to the environmental, social and economic dimensions of sustainability. Sustainability is seen as a process of engaging... Read more

Hack by Heike Ulrich on May 16, 2011 0 Comments

Dell's grassroots, internal conference on social media

Dell's marketing and communications organizations rely more and more on social media and community (SMaC), with some people blogging on internal or external sites, others developing community-focused... Read more

Hack by Bill Johnston on January 13, 2011 2 Comments

Powerful Quick-Fix for the MBA

As we wait for a new theory that would allow us to integrate currently disparate concepts and generate a more realistic business big picture, there is one easy and powerful solution for the MBA... Read more

Hack by Cristian Mitreanu on February 28, 2011 4 Comments