Managing Self: The Reflective Mindset; Leadership

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Managing Self The Reflective Mindset Leadership

• OS608
• October 30, 2006
• Fisher

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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?

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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?

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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

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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?

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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

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Management and Leadership

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

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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?

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Kotters Distinguishing Dimensions
Management
Leadership
Planning and Budgeting
Setting a Direction
Organizing and Staffing
Aligning People
Controlling and Problem Solving
Motivating People
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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.
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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.

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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