As in life, chicken and egg situations occur in many aspects of business. So which came first? The chicken or the egg? Who knows? All that is certain is you do not have one without the other. And maybe that is a good enough starting point to argue the benefits of executive education programs to...

A new approach to management development is described. The approach combines elements of both consulting and training.

Three different aspects of effectiveness in management development are drawn together: effective managerial behaviour, effective learning processes and development processes emphasising effectiveness.

The task of intervening to increase leadership effectiveness is to help learners become aware of counterproductive reasoning (defensive reasoning occasioned by threat, as opposed to productive reasoning) and to educate them in additional methods of reasoning and action. Two cases which have been...

The development of the AMA competency model is described. It is the first to be both generic and empirically grounded. It is applied in a graduate level programme leading to a master's degree, the Competency Development Laboratory, and specific skill courses. After an initial audit with...