Background
A central question has captivated the interest of researchers and educators at CCL for thirty years: What are the processes by which executives learn, grow, and develop over the course of their careers? To shed light on this question, the Lessons of Experience studies were initiated in the early 1980s. Based on interviews and surveys of 191 senior executives from six large U.S. corporations, CCL researchers gleaned the key developmental events in executives’ lives and the lessons learned from those events. In their book, The Lessons of Experience: How Successful Executives Develop on the Job (McCall, Lombardo, & Morrison, 1988), the CCL research team concluded that stretch assignments and developmental relationships were critical to ...
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