Globally Responsible Leadership Initiative
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The 50+20 Vision

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Management Education for the World

The GRLI is at the forefront of the development and implementation of the 50+20 vision and agenda “Management Education for the World”.

The 50+20 movement seeks to learn of new ways and opportunities for management education to transform and reinvent itself by asking critical questions about the state of the world, the emerging societal issues, the dominant economic logic, the purpose of business, the crucial role of leadership, and the challenges facing management education.

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The philosophy of the collaboratory forms the key feature of the 50+20 vision and involves a circular space that is open to concerned stakeholders to meet on equal terms for any given transdisciplinary issue. The collaboratory embodies the overarching philosophy that unites the three proposed new roles of management education for the world into a concrete action research and learning approach. As such, it represents an open-source metaspace: a facilitated platform based on open space and consciousness building technologies. A collaboratory is conducted without formal separation between knowledge production and knowledge transfer, while focusing on visceral real-life issues and developing solution in a process of engagement that is driven by challenges, not theory.
(FR) The 50+20 Collaboratory – methodology and approach for short one-time sessions
Management Education for the World speaks to everybody concerned or passionate about the future of management education: consultants, facilitators, entrepreneurs and leaders in organizations of any kind, as well as policymakers and others with an interest in new and transformative thinking in the field. In particular, teachers, researchers, students and administrators will find it an invaluable resource on their journey.
Management Education for the World
Management Education for the World speaks to everybody concerned or passionate about the future of management education: consultants, facilitators, entrepreneurs and leaders in organizations of any kind, as well as policymakers and others with an interest in new and transformative thinking in the field. In particular, teachers, researchers, students and administrators will find it an invaluable resource on their journey.
Management Education for the World (Mandarin)
The GRLI has been at the core of the development of the 50+20 vision and implementation of the agenda “Management Education for the World”. 50+20 is not an organization but a vision and movement that seeks to learn of new ways and opportunities for management education to transform and reinvent itself. 50+20 asks critical questions about the state of the world, the emerging societal issues, the dominant economic logic, the purpose of business, the crucial role of leadership, and the challenges facing management education. The project emerged from parallel projects that originated in different parts of the world:
The 50+20 Agenda – Management Education for the World (2012) – Free download
The philosophy of the collaboratory forms the key feature of the 50+20 vision and involves a circular space that is open to concerned stakeholders to meet on equal terms for any given transdisciplinary issue. The collaboratory embodies the overarching philosophy that unites the three proposed new roles of management education for the world into a concrete action research and learning approach. As such, it represents an open-source metaspace: a facilitated platform based on open space and consciousness building technologies. A collaboratory is conducted without formal separation between knowledge production and knowledge transfer, while focusing on visceral real-life issues and developing solution in a process of engagement that is driven by challenges, not theory.
The 50+20 Collaboratory – methodology and approach for short one-time sessions

Sponsoring Co-authors

The following institutions generously provided financial assistance to 50+20 and are formally recognized as sponsors and co-authors of the 50+20 Agenda: