1. A-608: Leadership, Entrepreneurship, and Learning
Themes
Organizational Culture
Building Effective Teams
Organizational Change
Organizational Alignment
Changing organizations from within (intrapreneurship)
Building organizations (entrepreneurship)
Organizational Learning
Learning to Lead
Leadership
Entrepreneurship
Learning

2. SLADE (DAY 2) Diagnostic tool: Work Group Model
Focus on culture (norms, roles, subgroups)
Examine design factors as levers for managerial action
Understand interrelationships between:
factors affecting behavior behavior outcomes
Psychological contract
Ethical dimensions/implications
Trade-offs given multiple stakeholders
Action alternatives
Risks associated with action & inaction
What are your objectives: control vs. commitment?
Focus on the informal social system (as well as the formal organizational structure)

3. The Eight Orpheus Principles
Put power in the hands of the people doing the work
Encourage individual responsibility
Create clarity of roles
Share and rotate leadership
Foster horizontal teamwork
Learn to listen, learn to talk
Seek consensus (and build creative structures that favor consensus)
Dedicate passionately to your mission
Source: The Economist, Aug 3, 2006

4. Myths about Leadership & Teams
Leadership resides in a single person
(E.g., leader as charismatic hero)
Leadership is based upon function, position
Leaders often must exercise influence without formal authority
Shared leadership
Team effectiveness = performance
Task output/performance is at least acceptable
Team’s ability to work together is enhanced
Individual members develop as result of team

5. Four Team Activities
Execute the work, perform the task, deliver the service
Monitor and manage the work
Structure the team and its context
Set the overall direction

6. Four Levels of Team Self-Management Management Responsibility
The Authority Matrix:
Four Levels of Team Self-Management
Setting
Overall
Direction
Designing the
Team and its
Organizational
Context
Monitoring and
Managing Work and Progress
Executing
the Team Task
Management Responsibility
Team Responsibility
Manager-led Self-managing Self-designing Self-governing
Team Team Team Team
Source for references to teams in this presentation: Hackman, J.R. (2002). Leading Teams: Setting the Stage for Great Performances. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Business School Press.

7. Personal Learning Questions
Leadership and Team Member Authority
Where have the teams you have been on fallen out on the authority matrix?
Why? (preferred leadership style, team member preferences, priorities, context)
Is this where you want(ed) to be?
Team Effectiveness
How do you think about team effectiveness? (>performance?)
What do you need to pay more attention to?
Leader Selection and Training
Do you prefer to recruit for attitude over aptitude?
Do you tend to look for charismatic heroes?
Given your answers to 2, 3, what do you need to think about as you lead teams in the future?