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Title: Managing Self: The Reflective Mindset; Leadership


1
Managing Self The Reflective Mindset Leadership
  • OS608
  • October 30, 2006
  • Fisher

2
Agenda
  • Collect reflective essays
  • Discuss Five Minds of the Manager
  • What is the purpose of this organizing framework?
  • Is it missing anything important?
  • Are managers and leaders really different?

3
Insights from Reflective Essays
  • Gosling and Mintzberg "events ... become
    experience only after they have been reflected
    upon thoughtfully" (p. 57).
  • What does this mean?
  • What have you learned so far from the MBA
    program?
  • About being a manager?
  • About yourself? How you interact with others?
  • What did you learn from writing this essay?
  • Other insights?

4
Five Minds of the Manager
  • Managing self the reflective mind-set
  • Managing organizations the analytic mindset
  • Managing context the worldly mindset
  • Managing relationships the collaborative mindset
  • Managing change the action mindset

5
Purpose of this framework?
  • What does the description of the five mindsets
    achieve?
  • Will we have done justice to organizational
    behavior after covering these five? What is the
    framework lacking?

6
The Reflective Mindset
  • Purpose is to stop and think step back and
    reflect
  • How does this help a manager?
  • Example Bill Gates biannual Think Week

7
Management and Leadership
  • Right now, do you consider yourself to be a
    better leader or manager?
  • Why?

8
Leadership discussion questions
  • What is the difference between a leader and a
    manager? Does this difference matter? Why or
    why not?
  • Gosling and Mintzberg the separation of
    management from leadership is dangerous. Do you
    agree or disagree?
  • How do lessons learned from Thursdays lab inform
    this discussion?

9
Kotters Distinguishing Dimensions
Management
Leadership
Planning and Budgeting
Setting a Direction
Organizing and Staffing
Aligning People
Controlling and Problem Solving
Motivating People
10
PG The Game Changes Again
  • New Connect and Develop strategy
  • Goal is to capture 50 of innovation from outside
    of the firm
  • Firm traditionally has valued internal innovation
  • Leadership challenges in this change?

Huston, L., and Sakkab, N. (2006 March). Connect
and develop. Harvard Business Review, 58-66.
11
Next assignmentLeadership Case Analysis
  • Due Wednesday November 8 4-5 pages
  • Identify a case or example from another module in
    which more effective leadership would have helped
    a team or organization perform more effectively.
  • How would a more effective leader have done
    things differently?
  • Use at least one of the leadership models or
    theories discussed in class.

12
For Wednesday
  • Leadership styles
  • Read
  • Goleman (2000). Leadership that Gets Results
  • Breen (2006). The Three Ways of Great Leaders
    (online)
  • Hamm (2006). The Five Messages Leaders Must
    Manage
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