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XP 39802: Strategic Leadership
Booth School of Business
University of Chicago
Winter 2014
Professor Chris Rider
Christopher.Rider@chicagobooth.edu
TA: Craig Tutterow (craigtutterow@chicagobooth.edu)
This syllabus is required reading for this course.
OVERVIEW
To achieve individual and organizational performance objectives, executives must coordinate activities among employees, between groups, and across organizations. Often expected to meet these objectives, leaders are not always trained to do so. By focusing on both formal and informal aspects of organizations, this course prepares executives to lead organizations strategically by leveraging principles of evidence-based leadership and by managing networks of relationships.
We will enhance your career opportunities in two ways: (1) by preparing you to design and implement organizational interventions that establish your results-based leadership credentials and
(2) by providing you with a nuanced understanding of how networks of relationships can either aid or constrain your leadership. Applying key course principles in a variety of settings will enhance your strategic leadership capabilities in industries increasingly characterized by technological and regulatory change, globalization, and demands for effective leadership.
Course sessions include presentations, exercises, and discussions. Presentations elaborate the theoretical foundations, exercises provide first-hand insights, and discussions apply principles of effective organizing to real-world situations. Applied exercises include the following:
(1) Group Assignment: Design an organizational intervention that can produce clear-cut evidence of effectiveness.
(2) Individual Assignment: Develop an individual network action plan for building and using social capital to achieve personal and/or organizational goals.
XP 39802, Winter 2014
1
C. Rider
COURSE FORMAT
Class sessions include lectures, in-class case discussions, and
Booth School of Business
University of Chicago
Winter 2014
Professor Chris Rider
Christopher.Rider@chicagobooth.edu
TA: Craig Tutterow (craigtutterow@chicagobooth.edu)
This syllabus is required reading for this course.
OVERVIEW
To achieve individual and organizational performance objectives, executives must coordinate activities among employees, between groups, and across organizations. Often expected to meet these objectives, leaders are not always trained to do so. By focusing on both formal and informal aspects of organizations, this course prepares executives to lead organizations strategically by leveraging principles of evidence-based leadership and by managing networks of relationships.
We will enhance your career opportunities in two ways: (1) by preparing you to design and implement organizational interventions that establish your results-based leadership credentials and
(2) by providing you with a nuanced understanding of how networks of relationships can either aid or constrain your leadership. Applying key course principles in a variety of settings will enhance your strategic leadership capabilities in industries increasingly characterized by technological and regulatory change, globalization, and demands for effective leadership.
Course sessions include presentations, exercises, and discussions. Presentations elaborate the theoretical foundations, exercises provide first-hand insights, and discussions apply principles of effective organizing to real-world situations. Applied exercises include the following:
(1) Group Assignment: Design an organizational intervention that can produce clear-cut evidence of effectiveness.
(2) Individual Assignment: Develop an individual network action plan for building and using social capital to achieve personal and/or organizational goals.
XP 39802, Winter 2014
1
C. Rider
COURSE FORMAT
Class sessions include lectures, in-class case discussions, and