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Peeling the Onion: Getting Inside Experience-Based Leadership Development

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 January 2015

Morgan W. McCall Jr.
Morgan W. McCall Jr.*
Affiliation:
University of Southern California
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E-mail: morgan.mccall@marshall.usc.edu, Address: Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0808
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Abstract

There doesn't seem to be much disagreement that experience should be at the heart of leadership development. The energy in the commentaries was around building on the existing foundation of knowledge about experience-based leadership development, bolstering certain areas to make it more complete and usable. I examine more closely several of the issues raised in the commentaries: the role of training and education in leadership development, increasing the probability that the desired learning from experience actually happens, and the transfer of learning.

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Industrial and Organizational Psychology , Volume 3 , Issue 1 , March 2010 , pp. 61 - 68
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Copyright © Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2010 

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