Action learning and the leadership development challenge

1 December 1998

journal article
Published by Emerald Publishing in Journal of Workplace Learning

Vol. 10 (6/7) , 284-291
https://doi.org/10.1108/13665629810236192

Abstract

Argues that action learning is the most appropriate methodology for developing leadership abilities, due to its being centred on questioning to address uncertainty, rather than on the ingestion of a pre‐set body of knowledge, which the authors argue is not congruent with the leadership challenge.

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