Transforming Your Leadership Strategy

“When innovation is king and keeping your finger on the pulse of technology and changing markets is critical, it is no longer the case that someone at the top will figure it all out and everyone else will execute.”
Deborah Ancona and Henrik Bresman, “X-Teams: How to Build
Teams that Lead, Innovate, and Succeed”

Fierce, innovation-driven competition is forcing a new way of thinking about leadership among senior executives and technical managers throughout the world.

Successful leaders are moving away from “command and control” in favor of “cultivate and coordinate” strategies that allow them to:

• innovate and move quickly from generating ideas to executing
and diffusing them throughout the organization.

     • unlock crucial information, expertise, and new ways of
       working together, wherever these qualities reside within or
       outside the company

In a competitive “flat world” of smart, orchestrated networks, tiny firms that do not need huge capitalization to compete, and new organizational architectures, successful leaders are moving to make their organizations more agile, responsive, and creative.

How are they doing it? How can you do it? In Transforming Your Leadership Strategy, you learn about a powerful, innovative approach to executive leadership that lies at the core of leadership development at MIT, the result of an intensive, four-year research project at the MIT Leadership Center to identify more effective strategies for leading in a networked economy.

Tested in diverse, real-world settings, MIT’s unique Distributed Leadership Model allows you to succeed as a leader by being flexible and adaptive in ways you may not have imagined, through the application of two key concepts:

     • a 4 Capabilities Leadership Framework that makes it possible
       to harness, align, and leverage the leadership capabilities that exist
      all across your organization, and

     • X-Teams, a revolutionary approach to creating flexible, outwardly-
       focused project teams that enables you to both keep current with
       shifts in markets, technologies, and competition, and accelerate
       the pace of innovation and change

The Participants

Senior general and technical executives whose organizations compete in an environment of rapidly-changing markets, technologies, and cultures, including: CEOs; Presidents; COOs; Executive Vice Presidents; heads of R&D, Engineering, Manufacturing & IS; Chief Technologists; Corporate Planners; Corporate Strategists; Vice Presidents of Marketing and New Venture Development; and other senior managers with leadership responsibility.

Faculty

Deborah Ancona, Seley Distinguished Professor of Management, is faculty director of the MIT Leadership Center. She is engaged in research examining core leadership capabilities. Her work includes the design and creation of leadership courses and workshops, a leadership model, and a 360-degree survey instrument.

Executive Education

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