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Course Title: The Ontological Foundations of Leadership and Performance

Course Calendar:

Thursday evening-Monday, September 04-08, 2008

Daily Hours:
 
Thursday:  6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

Friday, Saturday & Sunday:  9:00 a.m. - 6:50 p.m. & 7:50 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.

Monday:  9:00 a.m. - 6:50 p.m.

 Gleason Hall, River Campus
 University of Rochester
Rochester, NY

Cost of $1000 per attendee, includes course materials, meals and parking

No charge for current Simon Students, Faculty & Staff

 Register Here
For questions, please call (585) 275-8163
or email Nathan Kadar at nathan.kadar@simon.rochester.edu

Requirements for the Course:

Participants must agree to attend the course in its entirety (or clear any exceptions with Professor Jensen in advance. His email is mjensen@hbs.edu).  There will be an opportunity at the end of the first evening of the course for participants to choose whether to continue on or not. To have a real choice in the matter, prospective participants must have cleared their calendar for the entire remaining 3 evenings and 4 days of the course (or clear any exceptions with Professor Jensen in advance). Tuition will be refunded to those who choose not to stay on for the rest of the course after the first evening.

Content of the Course:

The course will cover a new model of leadership and its practice which is applicable for all domains of leadership, including personal leadership (being the leader of your own life), and team and organizational leadership in school, business, and any other areas in which you would like to make a difference (e.g. family, community, and politics). This new model of leadership has been specifically designed to provide you with access to being a leader and to the effective exercise of leadership. You will discover the central role that the future plays in being a leader and the effective exercise of leadership, and how one kind of future constrains you and the people you are leading, and another kind of future frees you and the people you are leading for breakthrough performance. The course will provide you a new and powerful model of integrity and demonstrate that integrity as it exists in this new model of integrity is the foundation on which leadership is built. You will discover that integrity as it exists in this new model of integrity is a necessary condition for maximum individual organization performance. We will also discuss why conventional time management techniques (including the To Do List) are fundamentally inadequate to allow you to maintain your integrity and to manage your life effectively. Since managing your life, time, projects, and tasks is fundamental to effective leadership, we will cover a new paradigm for managing all there is for you to do and handle in life that will leave you more productive and with freedom and peace of mind. The course will provide you with the tools to implement a more effective kind of speaking and listening in your personal, family, organizational, and community life. You will have an opportunity to practice using this new model of leadership. Finally, our intention and experience is that participants are able to put the course to use and produce results in their lives immediately.

We have designed the course to fulfill Dean Zupan's objectives and his desire to have the Simon School be on the leading edge of a new science of leadership. Dean Zupan's specific objectives for the course follow below.

Simon School Objectives for the Leadership Course:

1) To provide a new conceptual framework of leadership to participating Simon School students, alums, faculty, and staff and thereby also meaningfully improve the practice of leadership by these participants.

2) To get each participant to identify and/or sharpen their own professional and personal leadership goals and to take concrete actions to fulfill these goals.

3) To convey the centrality of integrity to successful leadership.

4) Through the joint involvement of the course instructors and participants, to create a breakthrough in the way that leadership is taught, learned, and practiced in business education and in business, thereby developing the finest class of leaders the Simon School has ever produced - individuals who will build our reputation as the educational institution "Where Thinkers Become Leaders."