Course Syllabus
LDP4201 Leadership: Making Principles Work
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Code
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LDP4201
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Title
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Leadership: Making Principles Work
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Credits
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3
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Description
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The main objective of this course is to equip students with tools necessary for analyzing leadership activities within the organizations. The course will also introduce contemporary leadership concepts and practices through delivering guest lectures and simulating leadership exercises. Students will learn major approaches to leading people that will serve as the basis for future organizational success.
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Objectives
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By the end of the course you should be able to:
understand how to develop competences for building the vision
recognize your own emotions and feelings and those of others
build relationships and understand how to influence others
diagnose the organization’s leadership capacity and address the present challenges
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Assessment
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60 % -first and second assessments
40 % -final assessment
- Tentative course outline
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Week1
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"Session 1
Course Introduction
Session 2
Course Introduction
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Week2
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"Session 1
Class Discussion
Topic: Building the Vision
Material:
Building Your Company’s Vision by James C. Collins and Jerry I. Porras, HBR, 2007.
Session 2
Guest Speaker
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Week3
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"Session 1
Class Discussion
Topic: Visionary Leadership
Material:
Trouble in Paradise by Katherine Xin and Vladimir Pucik. HBR, 2003.
Session 2
Guest Speaker
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Week4
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"Session 1
Class Discussion
Topic: Developing Emotional Intelligence: Personal Values
Material:
Hay Group. Self-Awareness Exercises
Hay Group. Emotional and Social Competency Assessment Questionnaire
Leading by Feel. HBR, 2004.
Session 2
Guest Speaker"
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Week5
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Session 1
Class Discussion
Topic: Developing Emotional Intelligence: Influence Strategies
Material:
Hay Group. Managerial Style Exercise
Leadership that Gets Results by Daniel Goleman. HBR, 2004.
Session 2
Guest Speaker
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Week6
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"Session 1
Class Discussion
Topic: The Art of Persuasion
Material:
The Tactics and Ethics of Persuation by Philip G. Zimbardo. Attitudes, Conflics and Social Change, 1972.
The Geography of Trust by Saj-nicole A. Joni. HBR, 2004.
Session 2
Guest Speaker
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Week7
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"Class Discussion
Topic: Developing the Founder’s Mind
Material:
The Founder’s Dilemma by Noam Wasserman. HBR, 2008.
Case: Meg Whitman at eBay Inc. by Linda A. Hill and Maria T. Farkas. HBS, 2005.
Session 2
Guest Speaker
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Week8
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"Session 1
MID-TERM EXAM
Session 2
Guest Speaker
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Week9
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"Session 1
Case Presentations
Material:
Meg Whitman at eBay Inc. by Linda A. Hill and Maria T. Farkas. HBS, 2005.
Session 2
Guest Speaker
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Week10
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"Session 1
Case Presentations
Material:
Meg Whitman at eBay Inc. by Linda A. Hill and Maria T. Farkas. HBS, 2005.
Session 2
Guest Speaker
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Week11
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"Session 1
Class Discussion
Topic: Getting the Right Results
Material:
Ideas are Born in Fields of Play by Charalampos Mainemelis and Sarah Harvey. HBR, 2010.
Case: Harrah’s Entertainment, Inc.: Rewarding Our People by Thomas Delong and Vineeta Vijayaraghavan. HBS, 2002.
Session 2
Guest Speaker
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Week12
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"Session 1
Case Presentation
Material:
Case: Harrah’s Entertainment, Inc.: Rewarding Our People by Thomas Delong and Vineeta Vijayaraghavan. HBS, 2002.
Session 2
Guest Speaker
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Week13
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"Session 1
Case Presentation
Material:
Case: Harrah’s Entertainment, Inc.: Rewarding Our People by Thomas Delong and Vineeta Vijayaraghavan. HBS, 2002.
Session 2
Guest Speaker
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Week14
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"Session 1
Class Discussion
Topic: The Art of Persuasion
Material:
Harnessing the Science of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini. HBR, 2001.
Session 2
Guest Speaker
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Week15
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"Session 1 FINAL ESSAY
Class Discussion
Topic: Getting the Right Results
Material:
Case: Sheikh Mohammed and the Making of “Dubai, Inc.” by Anthony J. Mayo et al. HBS, 2010.
Session 2
Guest Speaker
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