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Leadership Lab

Graduate · Historical course

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.
    Listed reading
  • Goleman, Daniel. “What Makes a Leader.” Harvard Business Review (November-December 1998): 93-102.
    Listed reading
  • 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.
    Listed reading
  • Welch, Jack. “Four E’s (a Jolly Good Fellow).” The Wall Street Journal, Friday, January 23, 2004.
    Listed reading
  • Tischler, Linda. “IBM’s Management Makeover.” Fast Company (November 2004): 112-3.
    Listed reading
  • Caproni, Paula. The Practical Coach: Management Skills for Everyday Life . Upper Saddle River NJ: Prentice Hall, 2001, Chapter 4.
    Listed reading
  • 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.
    Listed reading
  • Situational Role Play Goleman, Daniel. “Leadership that Gets Results.” Harvard Business Review (March-April 2000): 78-90.
    Listed reading
  • Zander, Rosamund Stone and Benjamin Zander. “Leading from Any Chair.” In The Art of Possibility. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2000, pp. 66-77.
    Listed reading
  • Optional Reading: Heifetz, Ronald. Leadership without East Answers _._ Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press, 1994. Chaps 8, 9.
    Listed reading
  • Brief Summary of Results of Action Plans Williams, Gary and Robert Miller. “Change the Way You Persuade.” Harvard Business Review (May 2002): 64-73.
    Listed reading
Spring 2003

Topics

  • Introduction
  • Precise Observation
  • Learning Journeys to Interesting Leaders and Companies
  • Sense-making
  • Crystallizing Project Ideas
  • Prototyping Project Ideas
  • Presenting Results

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