Teaching students requires a mastery of the class material. Aiming to bring about a fundamental change in the attitudes, beliefs and behaviors of seasoned executives calls for an appreciation of very subtle nuances, the political dynamics rarely captured in textbooks or scholarly publications. The sixty-four thousand dollar question is: Are we academics capable of rising to the challenge?

…could you ever tell the secret of the sea?
Of these high rolling waves along the shore?

– Woody Guthrie,
Secret of the Sea

The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

– Muhammad Ali

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

– Henry David Thoreau

The periodic bouts of angst experienced by administrators of management education and the incessant barrage of criticism such programs face, in both popular and professional publications, has become par for the course. When it comes to management education, so many are having the ‘Road to Damascus’ revelation that it has become banal, if not downright hilariously ridiculous!

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