Educating Leaders? How? Dig Deeper.
What do you think about educating leaders? Can it be done? If so, what kinds of learning experiences should tomorrow’s learners have to prepare them to serve as ethical leaders who can balance their own needs with a commitment to the public good?Dig deeper:
Is It Time to Retrain B-Schools? Read the New York Times article.
Read or listen to “Business Schools Mull Over Blame In Financial Crisis” on NPR.
Read the article mentioned in the NPR story. Also, read a story from the Aspen Institute Center for Business Education: A Closer Look at Business Education: Marketing Faculty Reflect on the Economic Crisis
http://www.aspencbe.org/documents/MktgEconCrisis.pdf
Learn more about the new MS in Leadership degree program in the School of Business and Technology
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August 10th, 2009 at 7:16 am
Another article of interest from Fast Company: http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/138/who-needs-harvard.html?partner=leadership_newsletter
August 12th, 2009 at 6:22 am
Another one!
School for Scoundrels, a review from Paul Krugman
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/09/books/review/Krugman-t.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=school%20for%20scoundrels&st=cse
August 18th, 2009 at 6:11 am
Even Jon Stewart is poking fun at the ethical education of business professionals http://www.thedailyshow.com/full-episodes/240953/wed-august-12-2009-jeff-sharlet (Mind the bleeps) As always with the Daily Show, its humor illuminates real issues and makes you think!
August 21st, 2009 at 7:14 pm
Like any other discipline, leadership contains fundamentals that can be taught in the classroom. As a Capella Leadership Ph.D. graduate, I can attest to the importance of having real world application in the classroom. My instructors understood this importance and not only incorporated their experiences into our class discussions, but encouraged the students to do the same.
Hasty decision making is not a learned behavior, it is a reaction. I would like to see more information regarding the study to support the trend of hasty decisions. There are many factors that could contribute to a decision being perceived as made in hast. Are we fully aware of all the details influencing this perception? I cannot support the alteration of the leadership curriculum without an extensive analysis supported by the appropriate literary experts.
September 30th, 2009 at 7:33 am
I totally agree that something has to change in the way students are taught. I think in Dr. Grahams second paragraph she has defined a core problem that occurs not only in business but in the classroom as well. “Hasty decision making is not a learned behavior, it is a reaction.”
My Dissertation topic is concerned with how anxiety is identified in the classroom. My premise is that reaction to influences outside the classroom are brought into the classroom. Anxiety is a reaction process. Unless the instructor catches the behavior the student is most likely to have a unfulfilled learning experience. Brookfield, Tinto and Freire all talk about how the classroom should be setup for critical thinking to occur but they also acknowledge the influences outside the classroom that need to be dealt with.
Louis Uchitelle, wrote “The Disposable American: Layoffs and their consequences” it chronicles the impact of the last 20 years effect of mergers and acquisitions on the workers that experienced layoffs. I propose that the reaction and survivor mentality from those events are brought into the classroom. A movie that chronicles the patterns of what corporations try to do without consequences is called, “The Corporation”. Corporations do whatever they get away with and figure the fine is less expensive than the monetary gains from the act itself. It has been accepted behavior for over 20 years.
Maybe now with so much change happening in the country, room can be made for a change in instruction that with acts come consequences to an individual and to the community they reside in and the examples can be shown, e.g. MCI, Madoff, World Com. We have lived under the mantra “come be taught by experts”, but can those experts teach and can they convey leadership. It is easy to teach the functionality of a balance sheet and income statement. It is harder to teach how leadership towards shepherding the company into a strong position, with consideration of the company itself, employees and community it resides in can be of service to the sustainability of all involved.
October 1st, 2009 at 12:09 pm
Marilyn,
Sounds like an interesting study! When you have some findings, please contact me if you’d like to share them in a story for Organizational Perspectives!
Janet
October 1st, 2009 at 2:06 pm
Janet,
I clicked on your link and noticed that you are in Boulder Colorado. I’m in Wheat Ridge Colorado and would be happy to have a cup of coffee with you to discuss my study.
Marilynn