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Leading in the 21 st century- New paradigms for a globalizing world MGMT-E 152 Prof. Michael Pirson Class 8: November 5. Agenda. Housekeeping Lesson’s learned from the assignment General Reflections on organizational level challenges Role and Design of Business in the 21 st century?
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Leading in the 21st century- New paradigms for a globalizing worldMGMT-E 152Prof. Michael Pirson Class 8: November 5
Agenda • Housekeeping • Lesson’s learned from the assignment • General Reflections on organizational level challenges • Role and Design of Business in the 21st century? • Leaders in the 21st century • Next Class
Schedule Overview Schedule Overview: • 1) September 17 - Overview of the course- Setting the stage PART I- System level challenges • 2) September 24 -System level challenge: Environmental and social sustainability • 3) October 1 - System level challenge: Environmental sustainability • 4) October 8 - System level challenge: Social sustainability • 5) October 15 - Meeting System level challenges: Distilling and Applying Frameworks PART II- Organizational Level • 6) October 22 - Organizational level challenges- Decreasing Stakeholder trust • 7) October 29 - Organizational level challenges: Employee engagement- managing commitment • 8) November 5 - Meeting organizational level challenges: Distilling and applying management frameworks PART III- Individual Level • 9) November 12 - Individual challenges: Managing the self • 10) November 19 - Social Entrepreneurship- managing the self, the organization and society • 11) December 3 - Discussing Life entrepreneurship- Leading a meaningful life, leading others with purpose Presentations • 12) December 10, Presentations • 13) December 17, Presentations
Housekeeping • Reminder: 3 objectives in this class: • Understanding the leadership challenges in the 21st century • Increasing reflective capacity with regard to Leadership in the 21st century • Present you with actionable knowledge on how to deal with leadership challenges of the 21st century • Great improvement for the analysis papers • Frameworks (check and follow assignment description) • Stakeholder Trust (more than just employees) • Employee Engagement • For Final assignment: • Be sure to look at stakeholder trust (not only employees) • Analyze all 4 challenges • Assume a consultant role (provide actionable insight) • Audience are executives (readability is crucial)
Housekeeping • Send us team members and organization analyzed • Make up assignments • Other questions?
Lessons learned from the assignment Surprises, Insights, Questions?
Organizational Level challenges • What are your insights gained over the past 3 weeks? • What issues do you have? • What questions remain open?
Role and design of businesses in the 21st century • Key drivers for sustained success in the 21st century? • What remains the same? • What will change in the 21st century? • How do organizational and system challenges discussed tie in?
Consequences for leaders in the 21st century • Does the role of a leader change? • How so? • What does that mean to you and your career?
Next Class 9) November 12 - Individual challenges: Managing the self Readings: • Rath, T.: Strengths finder 2.0 (Read Part 1 and do the online evaluation) • “Managing the self- Life Entrepreneurship” • Happiness related articles: • Harvard Magazine: January-February 26-30, 94 • Economist article: Editorial on happiness. • Csikzentmihaly, M.: “If we are so rich why are we not happy?” • Assignment: Prepare a response paper examining what makes you happy, what your goals are and how you can implement your strengths in a professional career(1 page). Drop off on Course Website by Tuesday 7 pm