Patterns of managing for the future

TLDR: In this article, the authors argue that managers need to be accepted as human beings with already developed patterns of operating and they need assistance to change those patterns, which is not easily achieved through the methods employed.

Abstract: Management development methods have changed since the 1970s. Crucial learning involves the changing of assumptions and beliefs — not easily achieved through the methods employed. Managers need to be accepted as human beings with already developed patterns of operating and they need assistance to change those patterns. Learning approaches can work which do not begin with the assumption that learning means giving things to the learner.