Focus: Leadership

Dear Reader,
In times of rapid change, leadership is more important than ever — not just at the top of the organization but at every level. In this issue, we look at some of the many dimensions of leadership based on Wharton research and educational programs, exploring what leadership is and how it can be developed.

All of the Wharton Executive Education staff join together to wish all our E-Buzz readers safe, healthy, and joyous holidays; and we look forward to sharing more updates and insights in 2002. Your feedback is wonderful and important; please contact me with any comments and suggestions for making this newsletter more informative.

Barbara Gyde [gydeb@wharton.upenn.edu]

P.S. — In January, we’ll publish New Year’s resolutions made by our faculty and staff. We’d love to hear your resolutions for the New Year as well. If we publish yours, we’ll send you a complimentary 2002 Wharton pocket diary.

In this Issue:

  • Thought Leaders: Leading Up: Acting as If You Were in Charge: What do you do when your boss is making a bad decision? Do you speak up or keep your thoughts to yourself? In Leading Up Wharton Professor Michael Useem examines the consequences of keeping quiet.
  • Laughter From the Front Lines: Be Careful What You Ask For: We learn this month how important it is to pay attention to the little nuances of conversations — even if you think you’re speaking the same language.
  • Wharton West: Vice Dean Helps A.L.S. Association: Bicycling as a Labor of Love: When a teaching sabbatical, a relative’s diagnosis with a crippling disease, and a passion for bicycling all came together in 1996, Len and Susan Lodish started on a trek that they continue as a labor of love every year.
  • Wharton Fellows: Fellows at Chicago Regional Forum Set New Program Design: Transformation takes center stage at the Chicago regional forum.
  • In the Classroom: The Leadership Journey: What’s Your Story? Your own story can become your leadership map.
  • Out of the Classroom: Wharton Leadership Ventures: Walk the Walk: Instead of just talking the talk, a new Wharton program helps you to walk the walk — across mountains and valleys — in search of new perspectives on leadership.
  • The Last Word: Wharton and The New Business Reality: Taking Stock of the Future: What will it take to succeed in the uncertain times ahead? Vice Dean Bob Mittelstaedt discusses Wharton scenarios for the future and a new program on "the new business realities."
  • Education á la Carte: Resolve To Change Your Thinking: Winter Break: Make a new year’s resolution that will make a difference — sign up for one of these courses by January 4, 2002 — and not only will your resolution be something to look forward to, but we’ll send you a free copy of Professor Michael Useem’s new book Leading Up: How To Lead Your Boss So You Both Win.


Caption: Kid to dad getting ready to hand him some money: "Thanks, Pop, but today's kids don't want money, they want leadership."

© 2001 The New Yorker Collection from cartoonbank.com. All Rights Reserved.

Thought Leaders: Leading Up
Acting as If You Were in Charge

While leading a group of 20 MBA graduates up Mt. Everest in 1998, Mike Useem had a chance encounter that led to his writing Leading Up. [More]

Laughter From the Front Lines
Be Careful What You Ask For

We learn this month how important it is to pay attention to the little nuances of conversations — even if you think you’re speaking the same language. [More]

Wharton West: Vice Dean Helps A.L.S. Association
Bicycling as a Labor of Love

When a teaching sabbatical, a relative’s diagnosis with a devastating disease, and a love of bicycling all came together in 1996, Wharton West Vice Dean Len Lodish and his wife Susan started on a trek that they continue every year as a labor of love. [More]

Wharton Fellows: Taking the Next Step
 Fellows at Chicago Regional Forum Set New Program Design

The theme of transformation that lies at the heart of the Fellows program went into action at the Chicago Regional Forum, as the first group of Fellows reconvened to work with faculty on re-designing the program and setting future agendas. [More]

In the Classroom: The Leadership Journey
What’s Your Story?

After more than 10 years of teaching leadership segments in other executive education classes, Wharton Professors Greg Shea and Michael Useem have designed their own leadership course, The Leadership Journey, which weaves together autobiography and biography with history and contemporary case studies. It debuts at Steinberg in July 2002. [More]

Out of the Classroom: Wharton Leadership Ventures
Walk the Walk

Instead of just talking the leadership talk, a new Wharton program crosses mountains and valleys to help you to walk the walk of leadership. [More]

The Last Word: Wharton and the New Business Reality
Taking Stock of the Future

With terrorist attacks and a turbulent economy, the future business environment is uncertain. Wharton Vice Dean Bob Mittelstaedt discusses how Wharton professors developed a set of scenarios for the future and a new executive forum on "business realities," which was held in early December. [More]

Education á la Carte: Resolve To Change Your Thinking
Winter Break

Make a new year’s resolution that will make a difference — sign up for one of these courses by January 4th, 2002 — and not only will your resolution be something to look forward to, but we’ll send you a free copy of Professor Michael Useem’s new book Leading Up: How To Lead Your Boss So You Both Win.

  • Executive Development Program: As you prepare for new managerial responsibilities, join other managers with a wide range of experience develop new ways of addressing the challenges of leading multifunctional business teams. During this 2-week course, you will take part in a multi-day simulation in which you learn critical issues associated with the human side of organizations and develop your interpersonal leadership skills. The classroom interaction allows you to expand your knowledge of functional areas outside your own and to develop your capacity for making strategic and tactical decisions to help achieve organizational goals.
    Competency/Skill Development: Influencing People, Motivating People, Personal Development, Teamwork, Communication, Commercial Awareness, Market Awareness, Developing Strategy
    January 20–February 1, 2002 (Philadelphia, PA)
    May 5–17, 2002 (Philadelphia, PA)
    September 1–13, 2002 (Philadelphia, PA)

  • Leading the Effective Sales Force: As an integral part of effectively developing and executing corporate strategy, your sales force needs to make each call count. Rather than focusing strictly on tactics, this class will help you to increase the productivity of your sales force by improving structures and planning. You will receive software developed by Academic Director Len Lodish for analyzing sales force deployment tactics. Professor Erin Anderson of INSEAD also works with Professor Lodish to direct this program.
    Competency/Skill Development: Developing People, Customer Relations, Developing Strategy
    March 3–7, 2002 (San Francisco, CA)
    May 12–16, 2002 (Fontainebleau, France)

  • Wharton Fellows Spring 2002 Cohort: Sustainable competitive advantage requires constant transformation at every level of the firm. As a CEO or other transformation agent, how will you lead your company through changes in technology, demographics, the workforce, or even geopolitical agendas? Wharton Fellows is an exclusive platform designed to benefit senior executives of global firms via a secure decision-support network. This multifaceted, multi-location program presents a new executive education model that brings together the best minds in business: Wharton faculty, senior executive peers, and industry experts.

    Wharton Fellows is limited to 100 senior executives per year who are willing and able to make a difference in their companies and the world. Current Fellows' titles include CEO, President, SVP, and EVP. Current sponsoring companies include 3M, Air Products & Chemicals, Bertelsmann, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Ford, IBM, Johnson & Johnson, JP Morgan Chase, Keppel, Marriott International, Royal Dutch Shell, Phillip Morris, the US Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, and Verizon.
    March 17, 2002, CEO Track (Philadelphia, PA)
    March 18–21, 2002, Transformation Agent Track (Philadelphia, PA)

  • Global Market Management: The implications of having a presence around the world are now more complex than ever. This class will give you a broad framework on which to base a coherent global strategy, as well as the tools to implement the various components. Selected session topics include: assessing and balancing risks and opportunities; global standardization vs. adaptation; branding, pricing, promotion, and advertising; and market selection and entry strategy.
    Competency/Skill Development: Market Awareness, Developing Strategy
    February 10–15, 2002 (Philadelphia, PA)
    September 22–27, 2002     (Philadelphia, PA)

  • Global Corporate Finance (A Wharton/INSEAD Alliance Program): Learn to better gauge international financial risks while taking advantage of global growth opportunities. During the 3-day program, you will study several international investment decision cases and discuss the latest findings on foreign exchange exposure, international mergers and acquisitions, and international corporate law and taxation. Faculty include Bernard Dumas, PhD, of INSEAD and a well-known researcher on international corporate finance and international economics; and Gordon Bodnor, PhD, of Johns Hopkins University and research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research.
    Competency/Skill Development: Identifying and Solving Problems, Effective Planning, Being Proactive
    June 2–5, 2002 (Philadelphia, PA)
    February 2–5, 2003 (Fontainebleau, France)

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