Development and Learning in Organizations: Volume 30 Issue 6

Caring and curing by leadership design: How Mayo Clinic intentions become achievements

This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies.

Guest editorial: Becoming a leader – a matter of education?

Anders Örtenblad, Anne Gimson

Partnerships from the seeds of collaboration: Cooperation pays off in leadership development program

This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies.

How should we develop leaders?: Attending lectures might not foster personal growth

This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies.

Becoming a leader-manager: a matter of training and education

Nhien Nguyen, Jens Ørding Hansen

Responding to a call from the conference “Becoming a leader: A matter of education?”, this paper aims to raise awareness of the challenge for individuals of performing both…

Enhancing leadership skills with action learning: a promising way to improve the effectiveness of leadership development

Daniel Belet

The paper aims to describe the use of the World Institute for Action Learning method to develop leadership skills of managers and future managers.

Exploiting formal, non-formal and informal learning when using business games in leadership education

Kenneth Børgesen, Rikke Kirstine Nielsen, Thomas Duus Henriksen

This paper aims to address the necessity of allowing non-formal and informal processes to unfold when using business games for leadership development. While games and simulations…

Leader legitimacy – a matter of education?: Leading Highly Specialised People – A Legitimacy Challenge

Anne Kamilla Lund

The purpose of this paper is to discuss and share some practical insights on how leaders can seek legitimacy when leading highly specialized/highly educated people from other…

Once learned, never forgotten: effective leadership development with social construction as a threshold concept

Jon Billsberry

This paper aims to discuss leadership development with social construction as the underpinning theory.

Leadership training and organizational learning: The influence of transformational leaders

This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies.

An experience based view on leader development: leadership as an emergent and complex accomplishment

Thomas Andersson, Stefan Tengblad

The paper aims to identify and address matching problems in leader development and to propose how these problems can be dealt with.