The Hidden Costs of Cutting Leadership Development: Why Pausing Or Postponing Leadership Programs Is A Dangerous & False Economy

It's tempting during periods of economic tightening to cancel investments in leadership training, pause existing leadership development programs, and postpone executive events and management meet-ups. But empirical research studies and anecdotal evidence suggest that this is a foolish false economy as it means reducing adapative capacity just when you need it most to innovate, adapt, and transform to deal with disruption.