- OS608
- October 30, 2006
- Fisher
Agenda - Collect reflective essays
- Discuss Five Minds of the Manager
- What is the purpose of this organizing framework?
- Is it missing anything important?
- Are managers and leaders really different?
- Gosling and Mintzberg: "events ... become experience only after they have been reflected upon thoughtfully" (p. 57).
- What have you learned so far from the MBA program?
- About being a manager?
- About yourself? How you interact with others?
- What did you learn from writing this essay?
- Other insights?
Five Minds of the Manager - Managing self: the reflective mind-set
- Managing organizations: the analytic mindset
- Managing context: the worldly mindset
- Managing relationships: the collaborative mindset
- Managing change: the action mindset
Purpose of this framework? - What does the description of the five mindsets achieve?
- Will we have done justice to organizational behavior after covering these five? What is the framework lacking?
The Reflective Mindset - Purpose is to stop and think; step back and reflect
- How does this help a manager?
- Example: Bill Gates’ biannual “Think Week”
Management and Leadership - Right now, do you consider yourself to be a better leader or manager?
- Why?
- What is the difference between a leader and a manager? Does this difference matter? Why or why not?
- Gosling and Mintzberg: “…the separation of management from leadership is dangerous.” Do you agree or disagree?
- How do lessons learned from Thursday’s lab inform this discussion?
Kotter’s Distinguishing Dimensions P&G: The Game Changes Again - New “Connect and Develop” strategy
- Leadership challenges in this change?
- Huston, L., and Sakkab, N. (2006 March). Connect and develop. Harvard Business Review, 58-66.
- Due Wednesday November 8; 4-5 pages
- Identify a case or example from another module in which more effective leadership would have helped a team or organization perform more effectively.
- How would a more effective leader have done things differently?
- Use at least one of the leadership models or theories discussed in class.
For Wednesday - Leadership styles
- Read
- Goleman (2000). Leadership that Gets Results
- Breen (2006). The Three Ways of Great Leaders (online)
- Hamm (2006). The Five Messages Leaders Must Manage
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