---
id: "question-compressing-experience"
type: "open-question"
source_timestamps: ["§ Implications for Talent Management", "¶16"]
tags: ["talent-development", "experiential-learning"]
related: ["concept-compressed-leadership-pipeline", "action-simulate-enterprise-tradeoffs"]
resolutionPath: "Case studies and empirical data on the design and efficacy of intensive, immersive executive simulation programs."
sources: ["reskilling"]
sourceVaultSlug: "hbr-seg-reskilling"
originDay: 10
articleStem: "hbr-nm-100-3-forces-manager-to-leader"
sourceUrl: "https://hbr.org/2026/06/3-forces-are-redefining-the-transition-from-manager-to-leader"
sourceTitle: "3 Forces Are Redefining the Transition from Manager to Leader"
---
# Effectively Simulating Years of Experience in Months

**Open question:** How can organizations design simulations that genuinely replicate the stakes, stress, and complexity of real-world enterprise trade-offs — without the actual passage of time?

**Resolution path:** Case studies and empirical data on the design and efficacy of intensive, immersive executive simulation programs.

To combat the [[concept-compressed-leadership-pipeline]], the author suggests designing immersive scenarios that compress years of cross-functional exposure into months (see [[action-simulate-enterprise-tradeoffs]]). It remains an open question how these simulations can genuinely replicate real enterprise stakes and complexity rather than merely mimicking their surface features.