Effective leadership is increasingly important in the knowledge economy, an era that calls for innovation. The specialization in knowledge management is organized around research and practice in the role of learning and leadership in contemporary organizations. This seminar is an occasion to analyze ideas and issues in depth. The seminar approach makes students responsible for their own learning. The teachers are earning facilitators, guides to the acquisition of working skills and thinking skills that help students teach themselves in a world where knowledge changes constantly, where they will be responsible for their own learning and career development.
Organizations function effectively when people work together for common goals.
The leader's job is moving people toward those goals and showing them how to work together. In this course, we will examine the theory and results of leadership from many viewpoints, tactical, strategic, communicative and ethical. Equally important, we will examine the ways in which leadership emerges at many points across and within an organization. The role of learning is transforming leadership at each point into information for all points and then transforming that information into the organizational wisdom required for effective action. A great many organizations that seem successful now will vanish, merge, or fail within the next two or three decades.