As educators, we must ensure that organizational change and transformation are at the core of our 21st-century management curriculum. In this article, we explore our rationale for changing the design of our leadership course and discuss the development of an experiential exercise that focuses on new themes associated with leading change. The exercise and implementation issues described provide an effective and efficient link between change theory and practice.
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