Within the past two decades, the requirements of leadership have changed dramatically. The School of Management and Strategic Studies enables its members to gain the necessary knowledge and skills to meet these requirements by providing:

IMMEDIATE ACCESS to a range of experience and expertise not available within the human resources of one's own organization. The demands upon the modern executive require not just information, but continuing access to the opinions, experience, advice and interpretations of a wide variety of experts. The faculty and Fellows of the School of Management and Strategic Studies provide just this kind of expertise in a form that makes it both immediately available and highly useful. They represent a resource so rich in experience and intellectual power that if it were thought of as a stable of consultants it would be unaffordable even by the largest of organizations.

COMMAND of the new communications technologies that will determine the future of executive action and organization design. Fellows of the SMSS gain hands-on experience with the new computer-based communications technologies that are reshaping today's organizations from top to bottom, learning about these advances not just from the content of the program, but from its form as well.

KNOWLEDGE of the interdependent psychological, social, political, technological, economic and ecological factors shaping the environment in which executive decisions are embedded. The SMSS program recognizes that the knowledge needed by the modern executive includes a broad understanding of national and international issues, of the problems and possibilities of new technologies, of environmental concerns and social movements, a sensitivity to changing values, and a perception of how all these elements are interrelated.

NEW APPROACHES to managing the complexities, paradoxes and dilemmas that increasingly characterize the tasks facing today's leaders. The SMSS program also recognizes that thinking strategically requires more than analytic skills --it requires the ability to think interpretively, i.e., taking the long view, seeing situations in context, understanding decisions in the sweep of history that preceded and will follow them, and grasping the deeper philosophical and value issues that underlie executive action.