Future of Executive Development

Mihnea C. Moldoveanu is Vice Dean of Learning, Innovation and Executive Development, Professor of Economic Analysis, Marcel Desautels Professor of Integrative Thinking, and Founding Director of the Desautels Centre for Integrative Thinking and the Mind Brain Behavior Institute at the Rotman School of Management at University of Toronto. He is the author of six books, including Inside Man: The Discipline of Modeling Human Ways of Being (SUP, 2011) and The Design of Insight: How to Solve Any Business Problem(SUP, 2015). He is also Founder and past CEO of Redline Communications, Inc. (TSX:RDL), one of the world's leading broadband communications equipment manufacturers.Das Narayandas is Edsel Bryant Ford Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, Senior Associate Dean for HBS Publishing, and Senior Associate Dean for External Relations. He has co-authored two books and his numerous articles for Harvard Business Review, Journal of Marketing, Journal of Service Research, and Sloan Management Review.

"What's the best way to develop your best people? Moldoveanu and Narayandas answer this essential leadership question, at a moment in time when our competitiveness—if not our survival—depends on our leaders' ability to learn. After reading this rigorous, engaging book, my key takeaway is 'don't just trust your instincts."—Frances Frei, UPS Professor of Service Management, Harvard Business School "This book is as timely, especially after COVID-19, as it is precise in describing a pressing problem: the training and up-skilling of executives. The unprecedented changes that company executives will face in this new era, combined with the extraordinary developments in new digital affordances for training delivery, make this book essential for anyone who manages people."—Sanjay Sarma, Professor and Vice President for Open Learning, MIT "This important book provides academics and practitioners the vocabulary for understanding what new skill building systems and strategies are required to equip executives to compete in the digital age. Thoughtful and thorough, The Future of Executive Development will be your guide to the disruption of corporate learning, with respect to both means and ends."—Martin Reeves, Managing Director and Senior Partner, Boston Consulting Group "The Future of Executive Development gives us a clear and exciting roadmap to address one of the great management challenges of our time: reinventing the way leaders learn, so they can stay ahead of the curve."—Matthew Breitfelder, Global Head of Human Capital, Apollo Global Management

• 1. The Skills Gap and the Skills Transfer Gap2. Executive Development Programs Enter the Digital Matrix3. Disrupting the Landscape of Suppliers of Executive Development Programs4. What Is to be Done? The Chief Learning Office's Compass and the Program Designer's Guide5. From Know It Alls to Learn It Alls: Executive Development in the Era of Self-Refining Algorithms and Ubiquitous Measurement and Connectedness