Before synchronous session preparation
- Read Syllabus posted on ilearn
- Read Kotter, J. 2001. What leaders really do. Harvard Business Review.
- Purchase course pack (if you haven’t yet) here : https://hbsp.harvard.edu/import/949315
- Read instructions about Learning Circle Group Assignment
- Complete Course community glossary entry
In Class Activity: Getting to know your colleagues
Class Notes
- Manager:
- Organizes the work to make it happen efficiently.
- Leader:
- Aligns people to the vision of the future.
- People assume leadership starts with a powerful position, but for most people leadership comes before you get a powerful position.
- Group discussion
- What do you agree with from the article?
- The idea of balancing long-term goals with short-term goals that build towards it.
- Aligning people versus organizing and staffing.
- Leaders focus on communicating around alignment
- Managers focus on staffing and organizing.
- Firms need a balance between leaders and managers.
- Trying to have on person do both often times doesn’t work.
- Planning and budgeting is more a manager thing than a leadership
- Creating a culture of leadership
- Creative latitude for front-line workers
- Upside-down org-charts
- Leaderfulness
- Proctor and Gamble case study
- What do you disagree with?
- It seems like some people really are natural born leaders, contrary to what the article says
- The article creates discrete categories where reality fuzzier
- CEOs legally have to do finance and budgeting which the article attributes to managers and not leaders
- How does it connect to your life?
- Being a leader affects all the relationships in your life
- While many of the aspects of leadership can be innate, not all of them necessarily are, and we all still have a lot to learn from examples like this.
- What do you agree with from the article?
- What Leaders Really Do: Criticisms of the article
- These categories are not so cut and dry
- Managers do many leadery things
- Leaders do many managery things
- TED Talk: Are you a giver or a taker?