This course kicks off with a three-day workshop. Following the workshop, we meet once per week for eight weeks.
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| | | | | | | | 1 | | | | Friday-Sunday | | | | Workshop Day 1: Enacted Systems-Dynamics
Overview of Workshop.
Introduction to Enacted Systems View of Organizations.
Simulation: Enacting a Production-distribution System.
Simulation Debriefing and Analysis: Personal and Interpersonal.
Grounds for Reflectiveness: Developing a Personal Vision.
Workshop Day 2: Enacted Systems-Sensemaking
Formation of Learning Circles.
Simulation Debriefing and Analysis: Systemic.
Increasing Awareness: Multiple Points of View.
Cultivating Leadership Capability: Making Choices.
Workshop Day 3: Enacted Systems-Change
Learning Circles.
Conditions for Healthy Change: Dialogue.
Course Format, Content, Exercises, and Expectations.
Building Shared Vision. | | | Pre-Workshop Reading
Senge, P. "The Leaders' New Work: Building Learning Organizations." Sloan Management Review 32, 1 (1990): pp. 7-23. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 2 | | | | Friday | | | | Change Models
Role of Technology in Change.
Role of "Leaders" in Change.
Readings:
Argyris, C. "Teaching Smart People How to Learn." Harvard Business Review 5, 1991 (reprint 91301).
Orlikowski, W. J. "Learning from Notes." Information Society, 9, 1993, pp.237-250. | | | Reflections Paper 1 (all) | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 3 | | | | Friday | | | | Social Nature of Knowing
Embodiment Exercise.
Evolution of "Knowledge Management."
Embodiment Exercises Lead by Groups A & B.
Readings:
Brown, J. S., and Duguid, P. "Balancing Act: How to Capture Knowledge Without Killing It." Harvard Business Review 5, 2000 (reprint R00309). | | | Group Assignment (groups A & B) | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 4 | | | | Friday | | | | Sensemaking and Artifacts
Embodiment Exercise.
Ways of Seeing: Mental Maps.
Embodiment Exercises Lead by Groups C & D.
Readings:
Senge, P. M. "Mental Models." In The Fifth Discipline. New York: Doubleday, 1990, pp. 174-204.
Starbuck, W. H. "Why Organizations Run into Crises... and Sometimes Survive Them." In Information Technology and Management Strategy. Edited by K. C. Laudon and Jon Turner. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1989, pp. 11-33.
Weick, K. E. "Cosmos and Chaos: Sense and Nonsense in Electronic Contexts." Organizational Dynamics. Autumn 1985, pp. 51-64. | | | Group Assignment (groups C & D)
Personal Report (groups A & B) | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 5 | | | | Friday | | | | Interpersonal Dimensions of Change
Embodiment Exercise.
Collective Leadership in Action.
Guest speaker: Roger Saillant, President & CEO, Plug Power.
Embodiment Exercise Lead by Groups E & F.
Readings:
Isaacs. W. Dialogue: The Art of Thinking Together. New York: Doubleday, 1999: pp. 17-48; 321-335.
Weick, K. E. "Prepare Your Organization to Fight Fires." Harvard Business Review (May-Jun 1996): pp. 143-148 (reprint 96311). | | | Group Assignment (groups E & F)
Personal Report (groups C & D) | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 6 | | | | Friday | | | | | | | Reflections Paper 2 (all)
Personal Report (groups E & F) | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 7 | | | | Friday | | | | Creating Space for Change
Embodiment Exercise.
Developing Capacity to Change.
Guest speaker: Molly Baldwin, Executive Director, Roca, Inc.
Embodiment Exercise Lead by Groups G & H.
Readings:
Hotchkiss, M., C. Kelley, R. Ott, and J. F. Elter. "The Lakes Story." Reflections 1, 4 (2000): pp. 24-31.
Scharmer, O., et al. Human Purpose, Institutional Transformation, and the Field of the Future [forthcoming]. Chapter TBA. | | | Group Assignment (groups G & H) | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 8 | | | | Friday | | | | Course Themes and Reflections
Review of Course Themes, Concepts, Lessons and Implications.
Readings:
Kofman, F., and P. Senge. "Communities of Commitment." Organization Dynamics. Autumn 1993: pp. 5-23.
Senge, P. M. "Leadership in Living Organizations." In Leading Beyond the Walls. Edited by F. Hasselbein, M. Goldsmith, and I. Somerville. The Drucker Foundation, San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 1999.
Senge, P. M., and G. Carstedt. "Innovating our Way to the Next Industrial Revolution." Sloan Management Review (Jan-Feb 2001). | | | Personal Report (groups G & H) | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 9 | | | | Friday | | | | | | | Final Reflections Paper (all) | | | | | | | |
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