BMA5557: Leadership in Organizations

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BMA5557Leadership in Organizations

• Fall, 2007

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Leadership Dialogue
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Questions

• What is leadership?
• Authority?
• Power?
• Credibility?
• How does the leader-constituent relationship
  work?
• Leader leads, others follow?
• Leader seeks to please, respond to constituent
  expectations?
• Whats the test of leadership?
• High rating from followers?
• Progress on important and difficult problems?
• Take people where they need to go even if they
  dont want to go there?

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Questions II

• How do you learn to lead?
• Read, listen to experts?
• Observe leaders in action?
• Trial and error?
• Dance floor and balcony
• Content (what) ?? Process (how)
• See the here-and-now, make sense of it, and
  respond in real time?
• Trust and risk
• Who can we trust?
• How much risk are we willing to take?

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Are managers clueless?
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Are Managers Clueless?
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Why clueless?

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• ?(nu) woman
• ? (zi) child
• ?(hao) good

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Frames - Images
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Reframing

• Choosing to view the same thing from more than
  one perspective

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Reframing
Some say love, it is a river, that drowns the
tender reed. Some say love, it is a razor, that
leaves your soul to bleed. Some say love, it is a
hunger, an endless, aching need. I say love, it
is a flower, and you its only seed.
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Images of Leadership
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BMA533 Logistics

• Assignments
• Individual and team developmental assessments
• Leadership challenge
• Final paper (optional grade or P/F)

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