pt. 1. Leadership and management development in the twenty-first century -- pt. 2. Strategic work in leadership and management development -- pt. 3. Basics -- pt. 4. Advanced processes and tools -- pt. 5. Widening horizons.

This paper considers the work of the Russian social philosopher and cultural theorist, Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin as a source of understanding for those involved in action learning. Drawing upon data gathered over two years during the evaluation of 20 action learning sets in the north of...

In this paper we consider the construction of narrative identity and particularly how managers of small businesses may construct new narrative identities within the activity of the action learning situation. We build on recent work to suggest that the ‘world’ of managers can be explored...