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Leadership and Organizational Strategy LEAD_ART 200-0
Leadership can sometimes be such a nebulous concept that many people - some of them leaders themselves - find it not just difficult to define but, in its very fuzziness, also somewhat intimidating. At the height of Gorbachev's glasnost and perestroika that eventually led to the disintegration of the Soviet Union, Bush 41 - when asked to turn more of his attention as the leader of the free world to the shaping of a new global order - disarmingly confessed that he was not good at "the vision thing". Yet Leadership is such a fundamentally important concept that begs to be understood. The Great Economic Meltdown we are experiencing today can be traced directly to the failure of Leadership - from Wall Street bankers who ignored the peril and devastating consequences of betting on untested financial instruments in exchange for immediate gains, heads of Main Street households who borrowed far in excess of what they can reasonably afford, to DC politicians and regulators who failed to protect Wall Street and Main Street from themselves. This course, designed for leaders of organizations at all levels, aims to strip Leadership of its fuzzy attributes - boiling it down to its most basic essence - so that so that the concept can be better understood and its principles wisely put to practice. At the end of the course, participants are expected to learn about: · The essential elements of Leadership: creating change, creating followers, and the value system that underpins and defines the behavior of every leader; · Stemming from these essential leadership elements, the basic roles of a Leader and the competencies needed to accomplish each of these roles; · Various leadership styles as defined by leaders' value systems, and how these styles determine the way the leadership roles are played; and · How the essential elements of creating change, creating followers, and the leader's value system translate into leadership's most basic, fundamental function: the creation of organizational strategy.
