ABSTRACT
This introduction provides an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book is about educating mid-career corporate executives. It deals with the strange sounding compound term "executive education" and proposes that this innocuous seeming practice deserves to be the new means by which they can transform some of contemporary society's greatest ills and iniquities, but not by the hubris usually associated with the corporate executive. This transformation is within the grasp of the corporate executive and the executive educator to affect, but like all transformations, it comes at a cost. The book enlists the specific, though not easy to understand, philosophical insights of Heidegger to mount these challenges, together with a range of other thinkers who share in the benefits of Heidegger's philosophy. It refers to a systematic body of thought that has been presented, extended and defended usually over a lengthy tenure in a professional academic role and setting, as Heidegger did.
