Executive Development Group Blog
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Articles from the field
Learning from failure helpful in mastering uncertainty
Frank Kalman writes in this month's edition of Chief Learning Officer about learning from failure: ...Aside from the psychological distaste associated with human failure, one of the larger barriers keeping more corporations from embracing it as an engine for learning...
Executive education, meritocracy and a few lessons from Qatar’s first executive MBA program
Executive Development Group partners Lily Kelly-Radford and Sandra L. Shullman write in this month's Chief Learning Officer Magazine about their teaching experience in Qatar's first executive MBA program: Late in 2010, The International Federation of Association...
The ambiguous map to Leadership
The February 2012 issue of Chief Learning Officer offers a special report on leadership development that makes an effective and topical preamble for The Ambiguity Architect and our work in understanding the importance of managing uncertainty as it relates to ...
Leadership, ambiguity, diversity—Randy White interview in “Research News”
Randy was interviewed while in Brisbane by Research News, the publication of the Australian Market and Social Research Society. Glass ceiling author still waiting for more diversity among leaders During his visit to Australia this year, Dr Randall White argued leaders...
The case for coaching in an engaging article by surgeon/writer Atul Gawande
I've been a surgeon for eight years. For the past couple of them, my performance in the operating room has reached a plateau. I’d like to think it’s a good thing—I’ve arrived at my professional peak. But mainly it seems as if I’ve just stopped getting better. —Read...
Ambiguity in Australia
Randy White's keynote address at the Australian Psychological Society got the attention of the Australian Financial Review and netted a feature article by Fiona Smith. Read "When being unsure is a strength" here. Soon after, Australian blogger, Dwight Towers picked up...
The Roots of a Modern Meritocracy?
Dr. Randall P. White describes India as an emerging meritocracy in a side bar to the cover story, "How Indian Firms Beat the World," this month in Talent Management. Executive Development Group is currently providing executive education in Europe, the Middle East,...
Liz Mellon on “Thinkers 50”
Here's an excellent interview with our friend and colleague Liz Mellon, speaking about her book Inside the Leader's Mind. Thinkers 50.
A review of “Inside the Leader’s Mind” by Liz Mellon
Liz Mellon walks with us among dozens of leaders, whether sharing their most public moments or abiding their most unguarded confidence to report her observations and present a behavioral prescription, not for success in itself, but for a sublime personal fulfillment...
Mutually assured success: global executive education
There is a great deal of leadership development work to be done in emerging markets, especially China. The work is demanding, reasonably lucrative, and fun. I find our time and counsel to be in demand with classrooms full of committed, motivated, and affable...