Comments on: Untying and Retying the Knot: Building a New Kind of Leadership

By: emilyfd

emilyfd — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 03:56:12 +0000

Interesting, this vicious cycle, where in MBA programs train executives to dissect the market to discover the criteria by which a product sells, in order to develop other products that meet those criteria, essentially providing more of the same. And that, of course, this forensic rather than creative approach to product development doesn't move us forward as a society. I really like the idea of replacing an allegiance to the audience or “what we know is already selling” with an allegiance to a creative team.

By: emilyfd

emilyfd — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 19:56:12 +0000

Interesting, this vicious cycle, where in MBA programs train executives to dissect the market to discover what the criteria by which a product sells, in order to develop other products that meet those criteria, essentially providing more of the same. And that, of course, this forensic rather than creative approach to product development doesn't move us forward as a society. I really like the idea of replacing an allegiance to the audience or “what we know is already selling” with an allegiance to a creative team.

By: daynaverstegen

daynaverstegen — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:18:55 +0000

This is a thoughtful piece that nicely reflects the optimism and energy that our newly-minted MBAs should be have. I love the idea of a collaborative environment and find in rare circumstances, in a room full of engaged and intelligent colleagues, that it is possible… sadly, it doesn't happen often enough. Thoughtful and open leadership can take an organization a long way, but unfortunately too many corporate cultures do not inspire (or sometimes even permit) creativity, nor do they empower individuals to act.

By: linda

linda — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 18:29:59 +0000

Seems we've hit on a trend that is really manifesting itself now!
"Multicultural Critical Theory. At B-School?"
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/10/business/10mb...

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By: riaz

riaz — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 06:33:50 +0000

Empathy is the missing ingredient the old form of education. All to often analytics took the place of good old fashioned understanding.

By: Emin

Emin — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 00:18:32 +0000

How to create a “new new economy” that is able to maintain this creative tension without succumbing to the trappings of ego, greed and blind ambition? Providing vision for ambition is the domain of education. Education, for the most part, has failed to create leaders with a sense of shared purpose. Can systems thinking be taught/fostered in the workplace, following decades of reductionist education in the classroom? Hats off to the dMBA and programs like it for trying. TUS-7M appears to have succeeded in cultivating the kind of space within which to rekindle this vision.