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Leadership and Organizational Change

Units arranged · Graduate

Course spans the entire two-year Leaders for Global Operations (LGO) program, with a focus on leadership that blends theory and practice. During their first summer in the program, students reflect on exemplary leaders' stories in cases, the arts, journalism, philosophy, and social science, and evaluate their own previous leadership experience. During the succeeding four semesters, they apply the lessons they have learned in class to their off-campus internship and other activities at Sloan, and intensively review that experience as they reach the end of the program. Classes take the form of moderated discussion, with the expectation that students will participate fully in each session; students also submit short, written deliverables throughout the program.

Summer 2009 · Organizational Leadership and Change

Topics

  • Introduction to the two-year LGO journey
  • Traits vs. situational leadership; Leading and following
  • Distributed leadership
  • Team processes
  • Transformational leadership
  • Don Davis/Bill Hanson
  • Leadership development planning and alum panel
  • Leadership, ethics, and authority (Leigh Hafrey)
  • Leadership: Innovation and social control (Leigh Hafrey)
  • Leadership reaction course
  • Reflections on summer teams and leadership

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Prerequisites & course information

Prereq: None G (Spring, Summer; second half of term) Units arranged Can be repeated for credit.

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