Leadership and Organizational Change
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
Readings
- Dominguez, Cari. “Views from the EEOC: Generational Diversity.” Diversity & the Bar , July/August 2003.
- Schein, Edgar H. Chapters 12 and 13 in Organizational Culture and Leadership . Jossey-Bass, 2010. ISBN: 9780470190609.
- Maathai, Wangari. Chapter 6 in Unbowed: A Memoir . Anchor Books, 2007. ISBN: 9780307275202.
- Heifetz, Ronald A. “Mobilizing Adaptive Work.” Chapter 4 in Leadership Without Easy Answers . Harvard University Press, 1998. ISBN: 9780674518582.
- Carlile, Arthur E. “MacGregor.” Organizational Dynamics 5, no. 1 (1996): 50-62.
- Fleming, Lee. “Photovoltaic Breakthrough.” Harvard Business School Case. Harvard Business School Publishing. Case: 9-604-034, September 4, 2003.
- SES #: 4 · TOPICS: Team processes · READINDS: Ancona, Deborah G., Thomas A. Kochan, Maureen Scully, John Van Maanen, and D. Eleanor Westney. “Team Processes.” Module 5 in Managing for the Future: Organizational Behavior and Processes . South-Western College Publishing, 2004. ISBN: 9780324055757.
- Klein, Janice. Chapters 2 and 3 in True Change: How Outsiders on the Inside Get Things Done in Organizations . Jossey-Bass/Wiley, 2004. ISBN: 9780787974732.
- Gerstner, Louis V., Jr. Chapters 20-22 in Who Says Elephants Can’t Dance . Harper Collins Publishers, 2002. ISBN: 9780060523794.
- Leonard, Frank S. “Hank Kolb, Director, Quality Assurance.” Harvard Business School Case. Harvard Business School Publishing. Case: 9-681-083, March 1, 1981.
- Bolt, Robert. A Man for All Seasons . Vintage Books, 1990. ISBN: 9780679728221.
- Hawken, Paul, Amory Lovins, and L. Hunter Lovins. “Once Upon a Planet.” Chapter 15 in Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution . Back Bay Books, 2008. ISBN: 9780316353007.
Prerequisites & course information
Prereq: None G (Spring, Summer; second half of term) Units arranged Can be repeated for credit.
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- MIT OpenCourseWare ↗Summer 2009
- MIT OCW readings ↗
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- MIT OCW calendar ↗
- Historical MIT OpenCourseWare offering. Named reading entries and schedule topics are automatically extracted from the linked source pages.