Executive education (EE) programs are an important part of many business schools’ mission. For many such providers, the 1990s was a robust time of growth and increased reliance on the fruits of those programs. In less time than takes to build a new EE facility, the EE environment changed. What...

Purpose – To provide and describe an inventory or practices executive education (EE) instructors can use to facilitate the transfer of program participants' learning back to their workplace. Design/methodology/approach – A number of experienced EE instructor team leaders, from one...

This article presents a framework for the design, development, and delivery of management development seminars devoted to the building of an organizational core capability. The framework presented is the outcome from a number of actual client engagements. A key element in the framework is the...

Purpose – This paper aims to present a number of important reminders and examples of oft‐overlooked managerial capabilities found to be useful in a variety of businesses. Design/methodology/approach – This paper's “reflections on practice” are prompted by observations of kids in action...

Purpose – Every organizational member makes a daily decision to speak up or to be silent on a host of issues. Silence can be problematic. The purpose of this paper is to posit that managers should listen for the silence, not mistaking its presence for agreement or for understanding from those...

The results of recent surveys of businesses indicate that cash flow is the single most important problem they face. The business press has noted that “cash‐flow planning is one of the more difficult and vulnerable areas in business management,” and that “businessmen can't understand...