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ESLS 669: Strategic Leadership Report a Broken Link

The goal in this course is to develop your leadership potential. 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. Leadership is about change mastery—and the first steps begin with challenging and changing yourself.

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