Blog Check #1 Feedback

I have now completed posting my feedback for your team. The feedback is posted in my "comment" that appears on your team's most recent blog post. My feedback includes my general sense of what your team has done so far and several suggestions for improving your blog. That will give your team some idea of the issues that you particularly need to address when you meet on Monday, Feb. 21, and will hopefully help you in your planning and decision-making.

Team Blogs are now linked in the left column

All of the Team Blogs in Section 2 of MQM 382 are now linked in the left column.  Blog links in the left column will appear in the order of the most recent posts (the most recent will be listed first).  At times, you may need to roll your mouse over the link for it to become visible. Below is a finalized list of the topics that each team chose.

Team 1  Good, Bad, and Ugly

Team 2  Sustainability CSR Leadership

Team 3  Living on the Edge

Team 4  Glass Ceiling

Team 5  Big Bang Impact

Team 6  Dark Side of the Force

Team 7  CEO, to Lead or not to Lead

You should check at least a couple of other teams’ blogs (as well as your own team) and make comments on a couple of their posts each time you make your own post in your blog (or even more often, if you like—the blog introductions sound like they will be really interesting).   Remember that the assignment recommends at least weekly individual blog posts contributing to your team blog—more are welcome! 

Also, remember to “sign” each of your own blog posts (type your name at the bottom of it) with your real name.  I will need to know who posted it in order to give credit for your individual points (see assignment file for both team and individual grading criteria). 

I hope that, once you become familiar with the blogging process, you will begin to actually enjoy this assignment and post some really worthwhile and interesting questions, issues, stories, media, etc. that will spark the interest of the whole class.  Of course, please see me if you have any questions or concerns.  Have fun!

Welcome Message

Hi Everyone!

Wecome to the MQM 382 Section 2 Blog!  If you are in Section 1, you have another blog, so please go back to Blackboard and click on the blog link for your section.

My first post will just be an introduction.  The second post (below) will list some possible blog topics that your team may want to consider.  However, these are just examples, and you are quite free to propose your own idea for a blog theme.  Professor Sheep will have to approve your theme, but you are encouraged to be creative and to make your blog as interesting to others as possible.  Make sure that you read the blog assignment on Blackboard before you create your blog or post anything to it.  There will be specific instructions for how to get started in the assignment.

Blog Theme Examples

Here is the list of possible examples (which you are free to use).  These are first come first served to the team that signs up for this theme first.  There will be no duplicates.  We are striving for variety in the blog themes for the section.

1.  Keeping It Real Blog:  Recent examples of authentic (or transformational, charismatic, servant) leadership

                Examples:  See articles by Bill George (Wendy Kopp, Admiral Thad Allen (retired), etc.)

2.  The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Blog:  Ethics and scandals, leadership ethics and social responsibility (examples of ethical or unethical leadership/leaders)

Examples:  Bill Gates, Warren Buffet (for their philanthropic initiatives) Bernard Madoff, Wayne McLeod (for their financial scandals)

3.  Shattering the Glass Ceiling Blog:  Gender (or other diversity) issues, women in leadership (recent examples in the news)

                Examples:  Indra Nooyi, Anne Mulcahey, Ursula Burns, Meg Whitman, Hillary Clinton

4.  Big Bang Impact Blog:  Recent leaders of change:  Change agents who have made a real difference in their organizations/society (and why they have been successful—or perhaps, if you can find examples, unsuccessful)

                Examples:  Mark Zuckerberg, Barack Obama, Nelson Mandela, Steve Jobs

5.  Alternative Universe Blog:   Alternative types of organizations, leaders in contexts other than traditional for-profit businesses (non-profits, government and political leaders, virtual organizations, and so on)

Examples:  Rahm Emanuel, Sarah Palin, Vladimir Putin, Wendy Kopp (Teach for America), Millard and Linda Fuller (founders of Habitat for Humanity), and so on.

6.  Living-on-the-Edge Blog:  Leaders of social movements, media celebrities, shapers of public opinion: their styles and impact (how they have been successful or unsuccessful in leading change and/or persuading others)

Examples:  Julian Assange (this could overlap with ethics), Anderson Cooper, Ellen Degeneres, Oprah Winfrey, Rush Limbaugh, Rachel Maddow, Jon Stewart, and so on.

7.  Dark Side of the Force Blog:  Examples of leadership that one would not want to emulate, leaders gone wrong.

Examples:  Michael Scott (The Office), Ken Lay (Enron), Adolph Hitler, leaders whose actions or inaction may have been responsible for various types of disasters or their bungled aftermath.

You can certainly propose others:  An International Leadership blog, Adaptive Systems and Complexity Leadership blog, Great Communicators Blog, etc.  Be creative!!