MAN--HUNT for Top Executives.

The article mentions the shortage of top-level administrators and policy-forming executives in the United States and discusses recruiting and developing managers with executive ability. The characteristics of top executives are a high level of psychic energy, self-reliance in business, empathy, and intuitive judgment. Topics include six executive skills that can be taught, the fallacy that successful middle managers are candidates for top management positions, the "participative-consultative" and the autocratic-bureaucratic philosophies of leadership, reasons why career development programs fail, and the quality of leadership.