<Articles>The Management of Time : New Orders for Executive Education (The 7th International Symposium between the Institute of Education, University of London (UK), and the Graduate School of Education, Kyoto University (Japan))

Abstract

What is "execution, " and what are its various manifestations with respect to the carrying out education? Specifically, what can the processes involved in the education of corporate executives, known as 'executive education, ' learn from musical executants, in particular? With corporate executives ranked as the pantomime villains of contemporary neoliberalism's bonus culture, but with the figure of the corporate executive exalted as the darling of policy debates comparing the smart efficiency of private business compared to the inefficiency of public services, how does this executive manage their time? How do they even conceive of time? What constitutes the illusion of time for the corporate executive? Should the time of executive education incorporate more temporal illusions, so as to reveal a new order of time; and can the musical executant help to reveal this new temporal order?