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Leadership Lab
Fall 2004 · Practical Leadership
Topics
- Introduction and Overview
- Leadership Frameworks
- Communication
- Situational Leadership
- Influencing Others
- Decision-making
Readings
- Leadership Traits Role Play Kouzes, James and Barry Posner. The Leadership Challenge . 3rd ed. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2002, pp. 13-22, 25.
- Goleman, Daniel. “What Makes a Leader.” Harvard Business Review (November-December 1998): 93-102.
- Ancona, Deborah. “Leadership in an Age of Uncertainty.” Managing for the Future - Organizational Behavior and Processes, Instr. Manual . 2nd ed. South-Western College Publishing, 1999, pp. 1-21.
- Welch, Jack. “Four E’s (a Jolly Good Fellow).” The Wall Street Journal, Friday, January 23, 2004.
- Tischler, Linda. “IBM’s Management Makeover.” Fast Company (November 2004): 112-3.
- Caproni, Paula. The Practical Coach: Management Skills for Everyday Life . Upper Saddle River NJ: Prentice Hall, 2001, Chapter 4.
- Optional Reading: Kroeger, Otto with Thuesen, Janet and Rutledge, Hile. Type Talk at Work: How the 16 Personality Types Determine your Success on the Job. New York: Tilden Press, 2002.
- Situational Role Play Goleman, Daniel. “Leadership that Gets Results.” Harvard Business Review (March-April 2000): 78-90.
- Zander, Rosamund Stone and Benjamin Zander. “Leading from Any Chair.” In The Art of Possibility. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2000, pp. 66-77.
- Optional Reading: Heifetz, Ronald. Leadership without East Answers _._ Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press, 1994. Chaps 8, 9.
- Brief Summary of Results of Action Plans Williams, Gary and Robert Miller. “Change the Way You Persuade.” Harvard Business Review (May 2002): 64-73.
Spring 2003
Topics
- Introduction
- Precise Observation
- Learning Journeys to Interesting Leaders and Companies
- Sense-making
- Crystallizing Project Ideas
- Prototyping Project Ideas
- Presenting Results
Readings
- Arthur, W. Brian. “Conversation with W. Brian Arthur: Coming from Your Inner Self.” 2001.
- Fritjof, Capra. In The Hidden Connections . New York: Doubleday, 2002.
- Castells, Manuel. In End of Millennium . Oxford, UK, and Malden, MA: Blackwell, 1998.
- Handy, Charles. “What’s a Business for?” Harvard Business Review (December 2002): 49-55.
- Jaworski, Joseph. In Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership . SanFrancisco: Berret-Koehler, 1996.
- Kahane, Adam. “How to Change the World: Lessons for Entreprneurs form Activists.” Relfections Vol. 2, No. 3 (2001): 16-26.
- Kao, John. “Conversation with John Kao: The Seventh Career: Building an Innovation.” 2001.
- Kelley, Tom. The Art of Innovation: Lessons in Creativity from IDEO, America’s Leading Design Firm . New York: Doubleday, 2001.
- Kofman, Fred, and Peter Senge. “Communities of Commitment: The Heart of Learning Organizations.” Working Paper, Organizational Learning Center, MIT, Cambridge, MA, 1994/2001.
- McDonough,William and M. Braungart. Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things . New York: North Point Press, 2002.
- Perlas, Nicanor. Shaping Globalization. Civil Society, Cultural Power and Threefolding . Saratoga Springs, NY: GlobeNet3, 2000.
- Pruitt, Bettye H., and Katrin Kaufer. “Dialogue as a Tool for Peaceful Conflict Transformation.” Reflections Vol. 3, No. 4 (2002): 50-65.
- Scharmer, C. O. “Self-transcending Knowledge: Sensing and Organizing Around Emerging Opportunities.” Knowledge Management Vol. 5, No. 2 (2001): 137-150.
- A shortened version of this paper was published in Leader to Leader (Spring 2002), 11-14.
- Senge, Peter. “The Leader’s New Work: Building Learning Organizations.” Sloan Management Review Vol. 32, No. 1 (Fall 1990): 7-22.
- Senge, Peter, and Goran Carstedt. “Innovating our Way to the Next Industrial Revolution.” Sloan Management Review Vol. 42, No. 2 (Winter 2001): 24-39.
- Senge, Peter, and Katrin Käufer. “Communities of Leaders or No Leadership at All.” In Cutting Edge Leadership . Edited by Barbara Kellermann and Larraine R. Matusak. College Park, MD: James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership, 2000, pp. 119-36.
- Senge, Peter, and C. O. Scharmer. “Community Action Research.” In Handbook of Action Research . Edited by Peter Reason and Hilary Bradbury. Calif: Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, 2001, pp. 238-249.
- Senge, P., C. O. Scharmer, J. Jaworski, and B. S. Flowers. Forthcoming. Presence: Human Purpose and the Field of the Future (working title).
- Shiva, Vandana. Monocultures of the Mind: Perspectives on Biodiversity and Biotechnology . London and New York: Zed Books, 1993.
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