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My experience has been that too many management training courses have an Idea Metaphor that they then try to warp reality to. If you are lucky, its merely cringe ("be a warrior monk!"). If you are unlucky, its actively harmful. I assert that this forcing of metaphors on trainees is the #1 reason why corporate mgmt training feels like such a high mental friction game.

I would suggest that the best training is one that takes a world view that you are already somewhat sympathetic to and expands your thinking. So for example I've drawn some inspiration from commentary in the Gita about focusing on the task at hand, not attaching too hard to the outcome, because of my cultural background, but Ive also read Jung and found it useful to think about the ways organizations build up a common store of mental state like a collective unconscious. That worked for me, but your background and interests will be different. Reading fiction, strangely, also helped me, esp when I started to manage more diverse teams. It can be easier to reason about fictional characters than real people sometimes, like a practice runin a sandbox.