Martha and Spencer Love School of Business professors of management Matt Valle and Kevin O’Mara recently published an article entitled “The New Reality: Holding On and Letting Go” in the Journal of Executive Education.
Their paper outlines an approach to executive education that addresses the critical dimension facing today’s business leaders – how to enhance their capacity for innovation while maintaining focus on the reality of today’s hyper-competition. The paper presents a model for executive development that emphasizes the unique roles and contributions of traditional business education and executive education providers in developing the knowledge and skills necessary to pursue these seeming conflicting initiatives. Their model describes the unique perspective and limitations of both education providers and details how each contributes to building leadership capacities of managing executives.