BUS4012 unit 1 discussion 1 latest 2016
april
After reading the chapter on personal mastery (pages 33–60),
thoughtfully write out your responses to the questions on page 54 and on page
59. How does this kind of self-observation, which you may consider an inquiry
into authentic self-expression and values and self-limiting beliefs, help
enhance your or anyone’s capacity to lead?
Read one other learner’s response. Post thoughtful, insightful,
and helpful comments to your colleague. Remember that this is someone else’s
internal terrain. Be gentle. Offer questions to support his or her growth
rather than evaluations or judgments. Discuss the value of this kind of
reflection to the development of leadership. Post in the discussion area.
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BUS4012 unit 2 discussion 1 latest 2016
april
Discuss how your request for an
interview went. Reflect on the process and how you could improve it. What
worked and did not work in soliciting an interview? What are you learning about
contracting from the questions leaders asked you or from their responses to
your request?
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BUS4012 unit 3 discussion 1&2 latest 2016 april
db 1
After reading the chapter on interpersonal
mastery (pages 79–104), write your answers to the reflections on pages 95 and
103. What are you learning about your tendency to open up or shut down
communication and your personal beliefs underlying these behaviors? What are
your growth commitments? How might you use these questions in your interviews?
Read two learners’ posts.
You do not have respond to those learners’ reflections, though you may do so if
you wish.
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After reading the chapter on being mastery (pages 147–164) do
the exercise on page 157 with an open mind. Then, write your reaction to the
exercise. What did you like about it? What made you uncomfortable? Why might
this exercise help you be a better leader? Respond to the questions on page 164
regarding what you have learned, your commitments, and your obstacles to being
mastery. How does our culture support or obstruct the pursuit and dialogue
about the importance of Being to being a leader? Why is it that this is such a
difficult topic to discuss (and, at the same time, why is it so essential)?
Read two learners’ posts. You do not have to respond directly to
those learners, but do engage in a dialogue by making at least one additional
post in this area that addresses comfort level with this topic and what this
tells us about our culture and the implications for leaders.
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BUS4012 unit 4 discussion 1&2 latest
2016 april
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After reading the chapter on resilience (pages 127–146), write Read one other learner’s balance reflection and offer insightful |
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Based on the Web site about Servant
Leadership, write several paragraphs describing the aspects of a servant
leader. Why does it appeal to you as an approach to leadership? What concerns
do you have? Why does servant leadership seem appropriate given The Thinking
Habits? Choose one of The Thinking Habits and elaborate.
Read one other learner’s response.
Compile a combined list of servant leadership attributes and discuss how these
behaviors support The Thinking Habits of Mind, Heart, and Imagination. Post
in the discussion area
capella BUS4012 unit 5
discussion 1 latest 2016 april
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Post your Personal Project Draft in
this discussion for peer feedback. Try to post your paper by Wednesday so that
you have time to integrate feedback into your final paper in Unit 6.
Read two classmates’ Personal
Project Drafts. Make insightful, helpful, and thoughtful comments. Be sure to
include what you liked best about their papers and what suggestions you have to
help them strengthen their final draft.
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BUS4012 unit 6 discussion 1&2 latest 2016 april
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New Science Summary. Write about
your understanding of the assumptions of new science and their implications for
leaders in the 21st Century.
- How are they supported by The Thinking Habits
of Mind, Heart, and Imagination and The New Business
Realities? - Do you see any points of conflict?
- What examples of these new science implications for
leaders do you see in your working environment? - How are your leaders adapting to these new assumptions?
- How can this summary be part of the theoretical base of
your Group Project? - How does it explain the need for the mastery
competencies suggested in Leadership From the Inside Out, that focuses on
Purpose, Values, Interpersonal Relationships, and Being vs. Doing etc.?
Read at least one other learner’s
summary. Offer helpful, insightful comments, referencing The Thinking
Habits and New Business Realities.
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Using the Internet, newspapers,
magazines, or television, point out two examples of organizations operating on
mechanistic assumptions and two examples of organizations where leaders operate
on new science assumptions.
Read two other learners’ media
searches and make helpful, insightful comments.
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BUS4012 unit 7 discussion 1&2 latest
2016 april
db 1
Using an Appreciative
Inquiry, write about your responses to the four questions below. Think about
leaders who used participation to help a group see the potential and create
that reality. Although this is not an interview, how might you use this to
support your work in the group project?
1.
Tell a story about a specific moment when you experienced a
participative leader who helped a group create and achieve something
exceptional? Who was there? What were you doing? What was happening?
2.
Describe the things you most valued about:
1.
the leader.
2.
the nature of the work.
3.
the organization’s culture or values.
3.
What do you consider the core factor that gives life to this
leadership interaction?
4.
Using what you have described, what 3 wishes would you make to
heighten the vitality and health of your own leadership behavior in the future?
Read at least one
classmate’s Appreciative Inquiry. Comment on what most impresses you and is
most memorable for you. Look for repeating patterns that may overlap more than
one story about what gives life. How do these stories demonstrate or refute the
importance of a leader discussing, modeling, embodying values and direction, or
demonstrating how communities shape their reality? Describe the importance of
participation in ownership.
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The Ropes
to Know and the Ropes to Skip
Imagine it is your job to
write a leader guidebook for new supervisors in your current organization.
Write a list of 10 rules describing current practices and day-to-day behavior
that the supervisors should follow in order to be successful. Then, write an
analysis of whether these practices reflect Newtonian or New Science
assumptions, giving examples and explanation for the position you take.
Read at least one
classmate’s ropes to know and make helpful, insightful comments about
similarities to and differences with your own list. Also note whether these
guidelines reflect mechanistic or new science assumptions.
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BUS4012 unit 8 discussion 1&2 latest 2016 april
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Tell a story about a time
in your life where you encountered disruptive information that resulted in
innovation or growth. Describe the tension between ignoring, insulating, and
avoiding this new information, and how it gave way to opening, embracing, and
integrating this disturbance. What was the role of self referencing,
remembering who you are, your values, aspirations, and gifts, to the eventual
innovation or growth? Why is this an important capability for leaders and why
are you a better leader as a result of this experience?
Read at least one
classmate’s story, maybe someone’s work you have not read before. Reflect on
something in his or her story that you find surprising and that you recognize
within yourself.
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Think of a technology that was once cutting edge but ceased to
exist. Why did it die? Was it insulated? Did it die because it presented a
closed posture to new or disturbing information? Perhaps it didn’t allow
freedom to self–organize. Also, tell a story of a technology that has survived
due to the creativity of one or two individuals who adapted to their
environment and who had the freedom to be flexible and adapt to a new reality.
What role did a leader have in both of these situations?
Read the Change or Die
entry of one other learner and write a scenario for the self-organizing story
of how he or she self–destructed due to closed leader behavior. Also, write a
growth scenario for the technology story that became obsolete, visualizing the
leadership behavior that would encourage this renewal phenomenon. How might
your open or closed behavior to new data be used to influence the possibilities
of your group project?
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BUS4012 unit 9 discussion 1&2 latest 2016 april
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Surprise is the only route
to discovery. Given the new science, The
New Business Realities, and The Thinking Habits, write two paragraphs
describing how a leader might include stakeholders and followers in a dialogue
of discovery that encourages empowerment and autonomy of action and diversity
while assuring alignment to values and mission.
Read one other learner’s
surprise assignment and make insightful, helpful comments. Post to the
discussion area.
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Using what you have learned from all
members of your learning cluster, synthesize some recommendations for leaders
around these topics. This will provide a basis for your group project
recommendations.
Discuss in what ways your learning
cluster has operated on new science assumptions and comment on behaviors that
you would like to acquire that will help you be successful in your group
project. Post to the discussion area.
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BUS4012 unit 10 discussion 1 latest 2016 april
Reflections on team
experience. Make your final comments and reflections on what seemed to work and
not work in how the group went about completing the group project. What have
you learned about successfully accomplishing a task with a group of virtual
colleagues? What leadership capabilities and roles were demonstrated? How did
your group incorporate new science assumptions in a way that helped you be more
successful?
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BUS4012 unit 1 assignment 1 latest 2016
april
Based on the London
interview with Margaret Wheatley, “The New Science of Leadership,”
write 2–3 paragraphs describing Wheatley’s theories and perspectives of
leadership and organizations.
- What
are the main points and theories discussed in the interview? - Can
you give examples from your work life that reflect Wheatley’s
observations? - How
do these ideas support or compare with the New Business Realities? Choose
1 Business Reality and elaborate.
When complete, submit your
paper in the assignment area.
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BUS4012 unit 2 assignment 1 latest 2016
april
After reading the
chapter on purpose (pages 61–78 of Cashman), write your responses to the
questions on pages 67 and 78 in the text. What are you learning about what you
value? What’s important and gives meaning to your life and work? Why might this
reflection be important to a leader’s development? How might this reflection,
or the others you have done, be the basis of an interview with the leaders of your
choosing for your personal project? Submit this assignment in the assignment
area.
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BUS4012 unit 2 assignment 2 latest 2016 april
After reading the
chapter on change (pages 105–126), write your responses to the questions on
pages 121 and 126. What are you learning about your comfort or resistance to
change and your tendency towards potential versus loss? How might you use these
questions in your interviews for your personal project? Why is it important for
a leader to understand their reaction to change? What is a leader’s role in
influencing and coaching other people through change? How might change mastery
apply to interviewing protocol and questions? Submit your assignment in the
assignment area.
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BUS4012 unit 2 assignment 3 latest 2016 april
Contacting Leaders To
Interview–Decide
the level of leaders you would like to interview (for example, individual
contributors, middle managers, or top managers). Also, in your learning group,
choose an aspect of leadership from the Cashman text topics (such as, personal
mastery, purpose mastery, change mastery, interpersonal mastery, being mastery,
balance mastery, or action mastery).
Each of you should request and schedule 45–minute interviews
with two different leaders. Interview leaders at your learning group’s chosen
level, and center both interviews on your group’s chosen aspect of leadership.
Note: The interviews you conduct should be in person. You will
be conducting your interviews in week 3 or 4 of the class and use them in your
team project and your personal project. You may use some of the questions
developed in the reflection exercises in the text in the chapter on your topic.
Write up your interview focus. Your instructor will provide
feedback on your interview focus. Include the following information:
·
State your intended purpose for the interview. Provide an
explanation of the topic and why you chose it.
·
What level leadership are you interviewing?
·
Outline your schedule for both interview sessions, include the
names and titles of the leaders with date and time of interview. If you have
not been able to solidify your schedule, please include a report of your
progress.
·
List the interview questions you plan to use from your learning
group’s chosen aspect of leadership.
·
Edit and spell check your work before submitting to the
assignment area.
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BUS4012 unit 4 assignment 1 latest
2016 april
Execute your plan.
Interview two leaders and write up your notes, including examining
interviewees’ personal characteristics. What worked? What did not work? What
would you do differently next time? What did you learn about interviewing? What
did you learn about your topic and its potential for helping leaders examine
their leadership skills and characteristics? How might the alignment to effective
leaderships be used in its own career progression?
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BUS4012 unit 5 assignment 1 latest
2016 april
Write a draft of
your Personal Project. Be sure to follow the directions in the Personal Project
course project description. This description includes the specific sections of
the paper and the criteria for evaluation. Limit the draft to 7 to 9 pages. Try
to submit your paper by Wednesday so that you have time to integrate feedback
into your final paper in Unit 6.
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BUS4012 unit 6 assignment 1 latest
2016 april
Using the feedback
that you received from your classmates and instructor, adapt and complete the
final Personal Project.
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BUS4012 unit 9 assignment 1 latest
2016 april
Given the new science
realities, rewrite your ropes to know and ropes to skip for leaders, including
guidelines for planning, measuring, motivating people, managing change and
information, designing jobs, and encouraging relationships. Explain the
importance and implications of these new science guidelines to the success of
the enterprise and describe the behaviors needed from leaders. Submit to the
assignment area.
