Leadership and Development

Catalog description

This course addresses leadership as a topic separate from management. Effective leadership involves setting a tone, a focus, and a direction for an organization, its members, and other stakeholders. In contrast, effective management involves executing against the direction and tone set by leadership. To be effective in most business positions, we need a mixture of leadership and management, and the exact mix depends upon the situation, the role and the person. The purpose of this course is to provide not only knowledge about leadership and its effects but also opportunities for reflection, study, debate, and practice that provide students with a context within which they can learn about leadership—both their own leadership and more general principles of effective leadership. This is a course for students who wish to take the time and exert the effort required to understand, confront and reflect on their own leadership strengths and weaknesses, and begin the process of becoming a more effective leader. This course is for Weekend Executive MBA students.