In short, Leadership provides frameworks to ANALYZE behavior in organizations and tools and opportunities (and reasons) to ACT on what you learn. A student’s ability to analyze organizations, and willingness to skillfully act within them, help answer a number of questions: Why do some talented MBAs succeed, while others, equally talented, flounder? Why do some people in leadership positions prove effective, while others do not? Why do some people become leaders and others do not? Why do some organizations thrive while others get in their own way? LiO tackles these questions. This course will help you recognize the key factors that contribute to organizational success, and the role you can play in helping yourself and your organizations be successful. You will develop skills to effectively analyze and navigate your current and future organizational lives, using your past, current, and potential work experiences as key learning material. The course is based on the premise that, regardless of your position within an organization, leadership opportunities and challenges present themselves every day and that it is to your advantage to recognize and make the most of these opportunities. You have to ACT in order to learn and grow, and this class and your time as an MBA student is the opportunity to do that – leaders are not made by passive observation! It is also based on the premise that effective leadership requires an in-depth understanding of both yourself and how organizations work, and an in-depth understanding of how to work with and through other people. By the end of the course, I expect that you will be more knowledgeable about how organizations work (or don’t work), and will be more conscious of others, yourself, and the impact of your own (in)actions.