Leadership Training Is Pretty Much Useless

( — reposted from a collection of pre-2010 rants posted elsewhere.)

I’d like to discuss so-called “leadership training” (but, fer Chris’sakes, in the brief, desultory manner my readers have come to expect in this obnoxious little series). We’ve all heard about these classes. Executives love to brag about participation in them; middle-managers can’t seem to get enough either — for resume…