ABSTRACT
Editor's Note: The two papers making up this chapter were first published as 'The Emerging Role of the Set Adviser in Action Learning Programmes' (Journal of European Training 5 (3) 1976) and 'The Shell of Your Understanding' Journal of Management Development 6 (2) 1987). Casey was perhaps the first practitioner to pay attention to the role of the set adviser and he records here both his early reflections on experiences of the 1970s GEC Programmes and his more mature additions, drawn not only from later experiences with Chief Executive sets at Ashridge, but from his faith and early experiences as a schoolteacher. Marked by both intellectual rigour and a profound emotionality, these papers show David Casey to be a fine writer with few equals in the action learning literature.
