Leadership Development in Management Education

Abstract

It is possible to summarise the objective of leadership as “direction setting”. In a large organisation these two simple words encapsulate a host of intriguing problems, sometimes nearly impossible to resolve because they involve arts of persuasion, intuition, and sheer bravado just as much as sciences of analysis, synthesis and design. But this article is about leadership development in the context of management education, which provides us with a certain degree of purchase on the problems.