Network Structures of Effective Management

Submitted by: Damon J. Phillips

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Section 1: Introduction

Readings

Cross & Parker, The Hidden Power of Social Networks, Ch 1

Kotter, What Effective General Managers Really Do

Hill, Managing Your Career

Bradt, Check, and Pedraza, You Must Start Before Day One

Case

Textile Corporation of America

Section 2: The Entreprenurial Manager

Readings

Hill, Building Effective One-on-One Work Relationships

Burt, The Social Structure of Competition

Baker, Using Your Social Capital: Filling Structural Holes

Maletz & Nohria, Managing the Whitespace

Eisenstat, John A. Clendin

Case

Managing Xerox's Multinational Development Center

 

Section 3: Overcome Conflict in Network Relationships

Readings

Casciaro & Lobo, Competent Jerks, Lovable Fools, and the Formation of Social Networks

Ware, Managing a Task Force

Badaracco, Discipline of Building Character

Case

Action-Burnett, Inc.

Jack Thomas

 

Section 4: Developing Strategic Partners

Readings

Hill & Kamprath, Beyond the Myth of the Perfect Mentor

Case

Joline Godfrey & Polaroid (A)

Jeffrey Sonnenfeld

 

Section 5: Social Capital, Competition, and Community

Readings

Saxenian, Silicon Valley: Competition and Community

Ferrary, The Gift Exchange in the Social Networks of Silicon Valley, p 128-138

 

Section 6: Status and Reputation

Readings

Podolny, Investment Banks

Podolny, The Dynamics of Organizational Status, pp. 453-458

Downes, Does BusinessWeek ranking matter?

Welch, The 2000 Business Week Rankings of Business Schools: Why they are both harmful and wrong.

Case

Prudential Securities

 

Section 7: Becoming and Creating Entrepreneurial Employees: The Role of Leadership

Readings

Stayer, How I Learned to Let My Workers Lead

Case

Johnsonville Sausage Co. (A)

 

Section 8: Becoming and Creating Entrepreneurial Employees: The Role of Structure and Culture

Readings

Preistland & Hanig, Developing First-Level Leaders

Case

3M Optical Systems: Managing Corporate Entrepreneurship

Prologue: The New Competitive Reality at EMI

 

Section 9: Leadership, Transition, and Change in Global Firms

Readings

Ready, How to Grow Great Leaders

Javidan et al., In the Eye of the Beholder: Cross Cultural Lessons in Leadership from Project GLOBE

Case

Charlotte Beers at Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide (A)