Explores the requirements of successful executive development programmes and looks at three superior examples in the USA. Describes how extensive CEO involvement is essential and that leading companies believe they must build their programmes from scratch. Notes that the executive development...

Proposes that executive development specialists should become part of the company′s infrastructure to help facilitate changes on an ongoing basis. Considers that companies are in “continuous evolution” and discusses the responsibility of human resource professionals in facilitating these...

Recent attention to competencies, especially the McBer approach, is reviewed. Different definitions focusing on personal qualities or task performance are outlined and it is proposed that neither macro‐competencies nor micro‐competencies are necessarily the practical route, and...