Does Management Education Really Create Leaders? … and should it?

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“Leadership Industry Failure” Harvard Business Review December 2017 TURNING POTENTIAL INTO SUCCESS: THE MISSING LINK IN LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT. Most leadership development programs aren’t working. Only 24% of senior executives at firms that have them consider them to be a success =============================== Consulting Psychology Journal Kaiser, Robert & Curphy, Gordy. (2013). Leadership development: The failure of an industry and the opportunity for consulting psychologists. Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research. 65. 294. 10.1037/a0035460.

“It’s difficult not to be frustrated by the excessive focus on [leadership], but it’s become so popular that we apparently can’t teach enough of it.’” John van Maanen Professor of Management, M.I.T Sloan (teaches “Leading Organizations”) “Can You Learn to Lead?”, Duff McDonald, April 7, 2015, https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/12/education/edlife/12edl-12leadership.html

The HEI Supply Chain Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) HR / L&D departments Students Academic Departments Career Services / Sales It doesn’t have to be a university or business school ======================= Newer institutions are finding ways to dramatically lower costs by offering their services exclusively online, focusing only on training for in-demand, high-paying skills, or having employers who recruit studentssubsidize the cost of tuition. https://qz.com/1178713/be-like-bill-gates-and-warren-buffett-if-youre-not-spending-5-hours-per-week-learning-youre-being-irresponsible/ Raw Material Supplier Factory Distribution Customer “Can You Learn to Lead?”, Duff McDonald, April 7, 2015, https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/12/education/edlife/12edl-12leadership.html

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“The lack of agreement on the [definition of leadership] means that leadership is practically ‘anything anyone wants to say it is,’ and leaders are ‘anyone who is so designated.’” Joseph C. Rost Leadership for the 21st Century “Can You Learn to Lead?”, Duff McDonald, April 7, 2015, https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/12/education/edlife/12edl-12leadership.html