ABSTRACT
The study of real life problems or opportunities by real managers in real time admits to a wide range of programme designs. For example, those actively searching the fields in which fresh questions need to be posed (and, if possible, resolved) may do so either full-or part-time; they may pursue their enquires alone or in small teams; they may remain in their own employing organization or they can be seconded elsewhere; they may even desert their own field of professional competence to find themselves working from first principles in some functional labyrinth they have entered for the first time in their lives – and, by doing so, they may also oblige the experts by whom they are now surrounded to think afresh about their unconscious assumption.
