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Center for Effective Organizations

Working Paper

A New Logic for Organization: Implications for Higher Education

E. Lawler III, S. Mohrman. April, 1993.

This research seeks a different path in route to understanding potential. Changing tacks is based on the assumption that the qualities one finds in the mature international executive are NOT necessarily the same qualities we should be looking for in high potentials. This assumption reflects a philosophy of development (that the skills of a mature manager will be or can be developed and therefore may not be present in the less-mature manager) rather than one of selection (that the skills form even in less mature managers). The "development" perspective leads to a mandate to develop the set of skills the international manager needs by providing an individual with a variety of developmentally powerful and relevant experiences. In this context, "potential" can be defined as the ability to take advantage of the experiences that will be offered.

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