Lessons of Experience: How Successful Executives Develop on the Job »

Where do successful business leaders come from? How do they learn the skills that propel them to the top of their companies? It has been estimated that corporations invest almost $40 billion dollars each year in management development. An impressive number, to be sure, but as the authors of The Lesson Of Experience show, most development takes place on the job, and not in seminars, classrooms, and MBA programs.