EXECUTIVE EDUCATION

Challenges Learning objectives:

• Understand the ongoing transformation of managerial work, responsiblities, and expectations especially betweeen direct report and employees at different levels within the organization,
• Analyze the organizational issues and tradeoffs that accompany the rise of new structures and management practices, especially the rise of team-based organizational design formats, virtual oragnizations, and outsourcing,
• Develop an appreciation for working cross-functionally among different departments to accelerate decision-making and improve responsiveness to market needs, and
• Understand how reward systems, corporate culture, and other organizational processes impact how managers think and act on critical issues.

Suggested Readings:

• Glenn Parker, Cross-Functional Teams: Working Allies, Enemies and Other Strangers, Josey-Bass, 2003 (A Wiley Print).
• Jean Lipman-Blumen, Connective Leadership: Managing in a Changing World, Oxford University Press, 1996.
• Sydney Finkelstein, Why Smart Executives Fail and What You Can Learn From Their Mistakes, Penguin Group, 2003, 2004.