Exec Development is a Different Game

This entire approach to learning and growth is experiential, not theoretical. Rather than having all the answers, you want just enough information to move forward. The fastest way to get relevant information is through failure and real-world experience. Your environment for success can’t be a classroom or a therapy couch. It has to be in the trench

There is no alternative to learning through experimentation. Benchmarking and studying “best practices” will not suffice—because the prototyping process does not involve just incremental changes in established ways of doing things, but radical new ideas and practices that together create a new way of managing.

Any organization that fails to build a robust learning program for its employees—not just to increase their skills but also to develop them as human beings—ought to expect that its people won’t get better at their jobs over time and may well get worse.