Practical Leadership Leadership Frameworks | Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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15.501/516 | Accounting
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2023
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Practical Leadership Assignment for Class Two – Leadership Frameworks 1. Take the Distributed Leadership Assessment and have at least FIVE colleagues give you feedback using the Assessment. 2. Read (in readings packet): • Kouzes, James and Posner, Barry. The Leadership Challenge. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2002 (3rd edition), pages 13 – 22, 25. • Goleman, Daniel. “What Makes a Leader.” Harvard Business Review, NovemberDecember 1998, pages 93-102. • Ancona, Deborah. “Leadership in an Age of Uncertainty.” Managing for the Future – Organizational Behavior and Processes, Instr Manual (2nd edition). South-Western College Publishing, 1999, pages 1-21. • Welch, Jack. “Four E’s (a Jolly Good Fellow).” The Wall Street Journal, Friday January 23, 2004. • Tischler, Linda. “IBM’s Management Makeover.” Fast Company, November 2004, pages 112-113. 3. Email instructor before next class • Your definition of leadership • Your list of critical characteristics of a great leader (4-10); your top four will be in the class tally. You can include traits from outside the readings. • Your Self-Assessment and Action Plan. o Self-Assessment – your candid assessment of your current strengths and weaknesses as a leader. o Action Plan – identify which aspects of leadership you wish to improve and where you will practice these new leadership skills and to what ends. You can include large opportunities (such as running a school function) and/or smaller opportunities (study groups, class projects, your best friend’s wedding). 4. Schedule a meeting with the instructor by the end of next week. Your email to me (#3 above) will be our discussion document. 5. Bring to next class (Class Two): • An anecdote that illustrates a leadership trait. Something that you did or someone else did. Your story can be an example of effective leadership or how not to be an effective leader • A summary of your Self-Assessment. o 2 or 3 of your key leadership strengths o the areas you plan to work on this semester o Preparation for the role play.