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ESLS 669: Strategic Leadership Report a Broken Link

The goal in this course is to develop your strategic leadership potential. Strategic leadership is a learnable set of practices that can be deciphered, reflected upon, understood, and used. Developing leadership potential is about acquiring proficiencies in key areas that leverage pre-existing skills and expertise. It is about raising personal awareness, developing personal understanding, and learning new ways to do things at work.

Required Readings

Lesson 1

Podcast 1: LeadershipTraQ (Producer). (2005), September 14). Mick Ukleja with Warren Bennis [Audio podcast]. http://leadershiptraq.com/

Lesson 2

Reading 1: Senge, P. M. (2006). Chapter 10: Shared vision. In The fifth discipline: The art and practice of the learning organization (2nd ed., pp. 191–215). Crown.
Reading 2: Center for Creative Leadership (n.d.) The best way to communicate your organization’s vision.
Reading 3: Lepsinger, R. (2018, May 25). How to be an inspirational leader. B2C: Business 2 Community.

Lesson 3

Reading 4: Schoemaker, P. H., Krupp, S., & Howland, S. (2013). Strategic leadership: The essential skills. Harvard Business Review, 91(1/2), 131–134.
Podcast 2: Harvard Business Review. (2012, Mar 16). The 5 Whys [Video File]. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmrAkHafwHI
Reading 5: Goman, C. (2017, July 11). Six crucial behaviors of collaborative leaders. Forbes.
Reading 6: Cross, R., Rebele, R., & Grant, A. (2016). Collaborative overload. Harvard Business Review, 94(1), 74–79.

Lesson 4

Reading 7: Sull, D., Homkes, R., & Sull, C. (2015). Why strategy execution unravels—and what to do about it. Harvard Business Review, 93(3), 57–66.

Lesson 5

Podcast 3: Family Action Network. (2016, May23) Dacher Keltner, Ph.D. – The power paradox: How we gain and lose influence. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HS9VHBlYklc
Reading 8: Keltner, D. (2016). Don't let power corrupt you: How to rise to the top without losing the virtues that got you there. Harvard Business Review, 94(10), 112–115.
Reading 9: Bolman, L. G., & Deal, T. E. (2017). Chapter 10: The manager as politician. In Reframing organizations, 6th Ed. (pp. 201-216). Jossey-Bass.

Lesson 6

Podcast 4: Grant, A. (2018, March). The Daily Show’s secret to creativity [Audio podcast]. WorkLife with Adam Grant: A TED original podcast. https://www.ted.com/talks/worklife_with_adam_grant_creative_burstiness_at_the_daily_show
Reading 10: Frisch, B. (2012). Four fundamental conflicts at the heart of senior management teams. In Who’s in the Room? San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, pp. 41–56.

Lesson 7

Reading 11: Center for Creative Leadership (n.d.). The top 6 leadership challenges around the globe.  
Reading 12: Zenger, J., & Folkman, J. (2012, August 16). Are you sure you’re not a bad boss? Harvard Business Review.
Reading 13: Freeman, R.E., & Parmar, B.L. (2019, January 28). Ethics as conversation: A process for progress. MIT Sloan Management Review
Podcast 5: Davey, L. (2019, August 5). How to use productive conflict [Podcast]. LeadX. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4523vZQGOVE
Reading 14: Bregman, P. (2016, January 11). The right way to hold people accountable. Harvard Business Review Digital Archives.
Reading 15: Grenny, J. (2019, March 13). How learning leaders can create accountable cultures to drive high performance. Chief Learning Officer.
Reading 16: Tollman, P., Reeves, M., Wallenstein, J., Cook, P., & Berriman, C. (2020, August 05). CEOs reflect on leadership in perilous times. Boston Consulting Group. https://www.bcg.com/en-ca/publications/2020/reflections-on-leadership-during-crisis

Lesson 8

Reading 17: Quinn, R.E., & Thakor, A.V. (2018). Creating a purpose-driven organization. Harvard Business Review, 96(4), 78–85.
Reading 18: Schoemaker, P., Heaton, S., & Teece, D. (2018).  Innovation, dynamic capabilities, and leadership. California Management Review, 61(1), 15-42.
Podcast 6: Wharton School (2018, May 14). LinkedIn’s Jeff Weiner, Keynote Speaker, Wharton Undergraduate Graduation 2018. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMJ_UrMNyLY
Podcast 7 (Optional): Wisdom 2.0 (2020, April 23). Compassionate management. LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner interviewed by Obama CEO, David Simas. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUubrI-h1ss