1. Managing Self: The Reflective Mindset; Leadership OS608 October 30, 2006 Fisher

2. 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?

3. 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?

4. 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

5. 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?

6. 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”

7. Management and Leadership ► Right now, do you consider yourself to be a better leader or manager? ► Why?

8. 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 Thursday’s lab inform this discussion?

9. Kotter’s Distinguishing Dimensions Management Leadership Planning and Budgeting Organizing and Staffing Controlling and Problem Solving Setting a Direction Aligning People Motivating People

10. P&G: 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.

11. Next assignment: Leadership 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.

12. 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