Week 3 assignments: 8pages / 2000 words/8 pages (without title page and references)
Learning Outcomes:
• Analyze and explain their roles as leaders in improving organizational effectiveness
• Create and recommend a change management process that engages and motivates employees and fosters creativity and innovation
This week you will select and obtain a book from the Selected Leadership Books.
It is not necessary to inform your instructor of your book. Your assignment is to read the book in its entirety. After you read your selected book, you are to create an oral book presentation, much like a TedTalk style presentation and persuade your classmates to read the book. This presentation is to mimic a real live classroom presentation - thus the video should show YOU. Can you use a PowerPoint to help you address certain points, absolutely - but the objective is for you to persuade others to read the book and this cannot be done simply with a audio powerpoint presentation. The presentation should be somewhere around 7-10 minutes, dress appropriately (business attire), speak clearly and have fun.
When reading the book, focus on the following topics:
What is the book's main argument?
Who seems to be the intended audience for the book?
How is the book structured?
Does the structure of the book (its various parts and chapters) reinforce its larger argument? How?
What kinds of sources, or examples, does the book offer in support of its argument, and which are most (and least) effective? Why?
How would you position the book in relation to our other reading assignments this term?
Does the author seem biased or prejudiced in any way and, if so, is that prejudice or bias the product of the author's own background, as far as you can tell?
How persuasive is the book (if certain aspects are more persuasive than others, explain why).
Your review should have two goals: first, to inform the reader about the content of the book, and second, to provide an evaluation that gives your judgment of the book’s quality.
Incorporate the elements of the list above into a professional, scholarly book review presentation for your peers to view. Do not spend more than one-third of the presentation summarizing the book. The presentation should not be a chapter-by
chapter summary. The summary should consist of a discussion and highlights of the major arguments, features, trends, concepts, themes, ideas, and characteristics of the book. Much of your grade will depend on how well you describe
and explain the material in your own words and, even more important, how the book can be tied to the material we’ve covered thus far in our course. Your presentation must include at least two direct comparisons between your book and
articles from our Course Pack.
From the Course Pack: 2 articles
• Advancing an Innovation Orientation in Organizations: Insights from North American Business Leaders (Dobni & Klassen) article, jim3,(2015) 104-121.( week 1 assignments)
• Leadership Development: Growing Talent Strategically (Dugan & O’Shea, 2014) article
The presentation should be approximately 7-10 minutes in length; this may vary slightly depending on the content of your book.
Note: Please use the Kaltura multimedia recording platform that is incorporated within Blackboard to record your presentation. The following video tutorials will assist you with setting up, using, and submitting your video assignment. Please post in the Discussion Board help section, contact your instructor directly, or contact Student Technical Support if you need further assistance with this tool.
• Video Tutorial Part I
• Video Tutorial Part II
• Video Tutorial Part III
• Video Tutorial Part IV
*Tip for submission in the assignment section: Click the submission link for your assignment. Select Write Submission>Mashups>Kaltura Media. It will open up My Media. Select the recorded video you wish to submit.
Rubric
The Oral Presentation is due on Day 3.
Submit in Assignments and in Discussion Boards via the left-hand navigation menu.
NOTE:
Book to choose: Only one Book (whatever experts likes)
Books that may be selected for the Book Review Assignment:
The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All Levels by Michael Watkins
The Leadership Lessons of the U.S. Navy SEALS : Battle-Tested Strategies for Creating Successful Organizations and Inspiring Extraordinary Results by Jeff Cannon
Primal Leadership by Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis and Annie McKee
Questions of Character: Illuminating the Heart of Leadership Through Literature by Joseph Badaracco
Principle Centered Leadership by Stephen R. Covey
The Speed Of Trust by Stephen MR Covey
What the CEO Wants You to Know: How Your Company Really Works by Ram Charan
Capitalism at the Crossroads: Aligning Business, Earth and Humanity by Stuart Hart
Crucibles of Leadership by Robert J. Thomas
Building Character: Strengthening the Heart of Good Leadership
by Gene Klann
A Leader's Legacy by James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner
The Versatile Leader by Bob Kaplan and Rob Kaiser
Resonant Leadership by Richard Boyatzis and Annie McKee
Credibility: How Leaders Gain and Lose It, Why People Demand It by James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner
The Extraordinary Leader: Turning Good Managers into Great Leaders by John H. Zenger and Joseph Folkman
Leading with Kindness: How Good People Consistently Get Superior Results by William F. Baker and Michael O'Malley
A Sense of Urgency by John P. Kotter
What It Takes to Be #1 : Vince Lombardi on Leadership by Vince Lombardi
Deming Management Method by Mary Walton
The Natural Step for Business: Wealth, Ecology and the Evolutionary Corporation by Brian Nattrass, Mary Altomare
Global Business Leadership by E.S. Wibbeke
The Essential Bennis: Essays on Leadership by Warren Bennis
How Toyota Became #1: Leadership Lessons From the World’s Greatest car Company by Dave Magee
Good Is Not Enough and Other Unwritten Rules for Minority Professionals by Keith R. Wyche
Hit The Ground Running: A Manual for New Leaders by Jason Jennings
Closing The Leadership Gap: Add Women, Change Everything by Marie C. Wilson
Walk The Walk: The Number 1 Rule for Real Leaders by Alan Deutschman
The Carrott Principle by Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton
The Business Guide To Sustainability by Daryl Hitchcock and Marsha Willard
Corporate Social Responsibility and International Development by Michael Hopkins
Green Economics: An Introduction to Theory, Practice and Policy by Scott Cato
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel Pink
Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
Learning Leadership by James Kouzes and Barry Posner