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You may have heard about executive coaching and thought that’s not for me, it is for people with performance problems. If we turn it around to adopt the sporting perspective, there are no top athletes in the world who don’t have a coach. They all understand that elite performance is as much about state of mind as it is about physical conditioning.
Management education can contribute to the welfare of business as well as the planet and all its inhabitants by adopting the balanced portfolio model developed by Stuart Hart and Mark Milstein from Cornell University, USA. 
In almost all sectors, companies are trying to defend existing market positions with aggressive cost reduction and pricing initiatives; but these strategies may not necessarily create value for customers or leadership positions for organisations that are sustainable in the future.
True blended learning is the effective combination of different types of learning methods or modes of delivery, models of teaching and styles of learning. It is a powerful way to create high impact learning that is practical and sustainable for executives, teams and organisations.
What a time to be a manager, an executive, a business leader of any sort! Today’s business climate is characterised by extraordinary levels of uncertainty, disruption, and change, and the forecast is for such turbulence to continue long into the future. Yet with all the dangers and threats come extraordinary opportunities.