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Leadership Tools and Teams: A Product Development Lab

Graduate · Historical course

Spring 2007

Topics

  • X-teams
  • The distributed leadership model and the leadership program
  • Ideas fair
  • Setting up for exploration
  • Influence skills for exploration
  • Preparation for interim reports
  • Interim presentations
  • Exploitation
  • Outside speaker: Joan Wood, Senior Vice President, Leadership and Organization Development, Genzyme Corporation
  • Moving into exportation
  • Final presentations

Readings

  • Ancona, Deborah, and Henrik Bresman. X-teams: How to Build Teams That Lead, Innovate and Succeed . Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 2007. ISBN: 9781591396925.
    Listed reading
  • Whetten, David, and Kim Cameron. Developing Management Skills . Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2007. ISBN: 9780131747425.
    Listed reading
  • SES #: 2 · TOPICS: The distributed leadership model and the leadership program · READINGS: Chapter 1
    Reading assignment
  • SES #: 3 · TOPICS: Ideas fair · READINGS: Chapters 2-4
    Reading assignment
  • SES #: 4 · TOPICS: Setting up for exploration · READINGS: Chapters 5-6
    Reading assignment
  • SES #: 5 · TOPICS: Influence skills for exploration · READINGS: Whetten and Cameron. “Transforming Power into Influence.” In Building a Strong Power Base and Using Influence Wisely , pp. 270-277. (Be sure to read this section carefully.)
    Reading assignment
  • SES #: 8 · TOPICS: Exploitation · READINGS: Chapters 8-9
    Reading assignment
  • SES #: 9 · TOPICS: Outside speaker: Joan Wood, Senior Vice President, Leadership and Organization Development, Genzyme Corporation · READINGS: Chapters 8-9
    Reading assignment
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