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Welcome to the Course Blog of Leadership Development and Entrepreneurial Application (Mgt 4965, Spr 2012). The course is designed to have students develop their understanding of and facility for leadership in the context of entrepreneurism.

4965 Spr 2012 is a hybrid course with half of the instruction face-to-face and half done online. It will explore the descriptive aspects of leadership-traits, style, skills, and the expressive aspects of leadership-what is a leader and how do leaders act. We are using Leadership, Theory and Practice, Peter Northouse for the descriptive part, and On Becoming a Leader, Warren Bennis for the expressive aspect.

Jack Welch is attributed to having said that the two tools of a leader are conversation and action. The class will, in the face-to-face portion, be discussing On Becoming a Leader to have students develop their understanding of the complexity and nuisances of leadership through conversation. For the action part, students will complete a leadership project, such as the CUNY IVE Smart Pitch Challenge. Through Leadership, Theory and Practice students will develop their understanding of the descriptive aspects of leadership.

In addition, to facilitate the expressive part, students will participate in an Entrepreneurial Leadership Blog (through the Baruch Blogs website).

Specifically students are to post 100-200 words weekly about their observations, awareness, gained knowledge, interpretations, and evolving thoughts related to both their own leadership and leadership in general as a result of the class. It is recommended that their writing each week reflect the weekly assignments and reading. Recognizing, though, that a new perspective may come from a collective learning over the course rather than a specific theme, the blog entry may reflect a multiple sources.