Trends in Managerial Reinvention

Managers are reinventing business, technology, the corporation, and themselves. This author identifies four trends in managerial reinvention through a review of selected recent journals: renewing entrepreneurial focus, refraining the manager's leadership role, reimagining organizational life, and reconnecting to the socio-political-economic-cultural context. The author then maps challenges for managerial learning in light of the learning organization by examining each trend at four learning levels: individual, team, organizational, and societal. The article concludes with a discussion of challenges common to each learning level for all four trends.