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Provides readers with an array of lenses for looking at a social agency from the outside in, and from the inside out
This highly accessible text takes into account the organizational dynamics that readers are likely to have experienced and provides them with the conceptual tools for reassessing their understanding and considering how to act on their new insights. Renowned scholar Armand Lauffer shows readers how to apply organizational theories to challenges they confront at work, and to uncover other challenges they may not yet be aware of.
Leadership, Management, and Governance
Leadership, Management, and Governance
Bill Clapman Teaches a Course
On the evening before his first class, Bill decided to scrap his teaching notes. No sense having students listen to an old retired exec telling war stories, he reasoned, when they could be sharing with and learning from each other. In place of the notes, he sketched out three brief scenarios of work-related problem solving. He made sure that each of the scenarios included at least 10 action verbs in common (like “coordinate,” “record,” “inform,” and “confront”). On his way to the university, Bill stopped at a copy center to enlarge the scenarios, poster size. He got to class a bit early, wrote three words at the top of the chalkboard—MANAGEMENT, LEADERSHIP, and BOTH.
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