Third-Generation Management Development

From: T + D | Date: March 1, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

Managers are not created in a classroom, but practicing managers in a classroom can step back from work pressures and learn profoundly from their own experience. The International Master's Program in Practicing Management at McGill University in Canada and around the world is truly in-practice learning and an alternative to the MBA.

Management development programs have long relied on lecture and discussion of cases-in other words, on learning from other people's experience. We can call that first-generation management development. It has been fine, as far as it went; it just didn't go far ...

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