Leadership Development
Seminar environment created to develop leadership capabilities, and to take advantage of leadership opportunities. An initial Outward Bound experience builds trust, teamwork and communications. Readings and assignments emphasize the characteristics of desired leadership skills. Global leaders participate in the Leadership Lunch series to share their experiences and recommendations. Discussions explore leadership development. Culminates in a personal leadership plan. Restricted to entering students in the Technology and Policy program or instructor permission.
Fall 2014
Students work in a seminar environment to enhance their leadership capabilities. An initial Leadership Laboratory Outward Bound experience builds trust, teamwork and communications. Readings and assignments emphasize the characteristics of effective leadership. Distinguished leaders participate in the "Leadership Lunch" story-telling series to share their experiences and to provide recommendations. Discussions help explore and further probe leadership development. The learning experience culminates in a personal leadership plan.
Readings
- Bennis, Warren G., and Burt Nanus. “Mistaking Charge” and “Leading Others, Managing Yourself.” In Leaders: Strategies for Taking Charge . Harper Business, 2007, pp. 1–17 and 18–79. ISBN: 9780060559540.
- Heifetz, Ronald A., and Martin Linsky. “The Boston Heart of Danger.” Chapter 1 in Leadership on the Line: Staying Alive through the Dangers of Leading . Harvard Business Review Press, 2002. ISBN: 9781578514373.
- Tan, Chade-Meng. Search Inside Yourself: The Unexpected Path to Achieving Success, Happiness (and World Peace) . HarperOne, 2014. ISBN: 9780062116932.
- Augustine, Norman R. “Twelve Qualities of a Leader.” Based on a presentation at The Colloquium on Leadership, Creativity and Values . The Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, DC, April 29, 1999.
- Drucker, Peter F. “The Discipline of Innovation” and “The Practice of Innovation.” Chapters 7 and 8 in Leader to Leader: Enduring Insights on Leadership from the Drucker Foundation’s Award Winning Journal . Edited by Frances Hesselbein and Paul M. Cohen. Jossey-Bass, 1999. ISBN: 9780787947262.
- Zaleznik, Abraham. “Managers and Leaders: Are They Different?” In Designing and Managing Your Career . Edited by Harry Levinson. Harvard Business Review Press, 1988. ISBN: 9780875841809.
Fall 2002
Topics
- Leadership Development Offsite, Part 2
- Leadership Development Calibration
Prerequisites & course information
Prereq: Permission of instructor G (Fall; partial term) Not offered regularly; consult department 1-1-1 units
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- MIT OpenCourseWare ↗Fall 2014
- MIT OCW calendar ↗
- MIT OCW readings ↗
- MIT OCW syllabus ↗
- MIT OpenCourseWare ↗Fall 2002
- MIT OCW syllabus ↗
- MIT OCW calendar ↗
- Historical MIT OpenCourseWare offering. Named reading entries and schedule topics are automatically extracted from the linked source pages.
- Historical MIT OpenCourseWare offering. Named reading entries and schedule topics are automatically extracted from the linked source pages.