All questions here must be answered:
2.a Your text suggests that technical skills are of relatively lower importance for top
managers in an organizational structure. But some have argued that in the information
field, technical skills are essential for senior leadership. Make the best argument you
can for each one of these conflicting positions.
2.b What is your position on this issue, and how do you support it?
2.c Translate your position into personal impact. How will it affect your lifelong learning
plan for skill development?
Please use some of these sources:
Grow, G. O. (1991). Teaching learners to be self-directed. Adult Education Quarterly, 41, 125.
Wadhwa, V. (2016, June 7). Democracy is a great thing, except in the workplace. The Washington Post.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration. (2015, November 12). The pursuit of images of Columbia. NASA Case Study GSFC-1001C-3.
Kotter, John P. (1990). What leaders really do. Harvard Business Review.
Zaleznik, A. (2004, January). Managers and leaders: Are they different?. Harvard Business Review.
Bowen, M. G. (1992). A good team player. Arthur Andersen & Co, SC Minicase: MGMT-06.
Koehn, Nancy F. (2010). Leadership in crisis: Ernest Shackleton and the epic voyage of the endurance. Harvard Business Review.
NOTE: You may also watch the story: https://ensemble.syr.edu/Watch/q7G4SrDg.
Rosener, Judy B (1990, Nov/Dec). Ways women lead. Harvard Business Review.
Erickson, Tammy (2014, issue 2. How to develop contextual leaders. London Business School.
Mintzberg, H., & Waters, J. A. (1985). Of strategies, deliberate and emergent. Strategic Management Journal, 6, 257–272.
Porter, M. E., (1996, November–December). What is strategy? Harvard Business Review, 61–63.
A New Strategy for India. (n.d.)
Making a justification argument. (n.d.)
Investing in classroom technology at Ballantyne State University. (n.d.)
Carr, N.G. (2003). IT doesn’t matter. Harvard Business Review.
Drickhaus, D. (Author), & Hilgert, R. L. (Ed.). (1992). Cost justified? Arthur Andersen & Co, SC Minicase: MGMT-09.
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