Corporate Boot Camps. We’ve all heard about them. Many of us have lived through them. In my case, I’ve even invented a number of them. It’s fair to say that, while some achieve their goals better than others, they’re all pretty much the same. They typically focus on knowledge transfer—informing new hires, for instance, about the company’s products and markets and how to access key resources in the organization. The best ones, like those at GE and Ford, do this by having the recruits work on real business problems, where intense teamwork is required to meet tight deadlines (a technique I’ve described elsewhere as “compressed action learning”). I’ve studied them all. I thought I’d seen it all.