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Article: Leadership development: an exploration of sources of learning.
- Article from:
- SAM Advanced Management Journal
- Article date:
- January 1, 2008
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Leadership development remains a popular topic in research and practice. Of the estimated $51 billion spent on training annually, more than $14 billion was for leadership development (Dolezalek, 2005). However, guidance on the development of leaders tends either to be purely conceptual or purely applied. Little academic work connects the theory of leadership development to the interventions used in leadership development programs and initiatives. As a result, this paper categorizes a comprehensive list of more than 25 sources of learning within the framework of Conger's (1992) four approaches to leadership development programming. Conger's ...