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Course Outline

ADVANCED LEADERSHIP COURSE (ALC) at IIMU

for PGP- II, 5th. Semester, 2019

Faculty: Prof Manab Bose with appropriate support from other professionals.

OVERVIEW

“Leadership is lifting a person’s vision to high sights, the raising of a person’s

performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its
normal limitations.” – Peter Drucker

The main objective of ALC is to provide exposure and training to final-year

students about Leadership paradigms and practices, through team-engagement
with real-life “Leaders” from various walks of life. Every member of the
participating Class will also be expected to explore her / his “personality”
characteristics that impact her / his “leadership” behaviors in this highly
interactive course, divided into four (4) segments spread across the semester.

The Dual Concepts of ALC

(a) The engagement with real-life Leaders will help conceptualize the
practice of “leadership” behaviors such as listening, risk-taking,
thinking out-of-the-box, influencing other team-members, meeting tight
time-schedules and finally, dialoging key takeaways and
recommendations with the leader and the Faculty. The study will also
deliver tangible value to that leader, and is expected to compensate
many times over the investment, if any, made by her / him in this
initiative.

(b) The paradigm shift in Leadership Coaching initiated at select top

Fortune 500 companies is the application of OD practices that are
informed by organization psychodynamics, and psychoanalytic
psychotherapy.

“It's fair, perhaps, to say that psychotherapists have more intensive

training in personality dynamics, while executive coaches focus more
on the general work environment in which executives operate. But it's
my conviction that therapists can benefit from knowing more about the
organizational world, and coaches without training in psychology would
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do well to acquire its basics. In my own work, I often move from past to
present and from conscious to unconscious material. Both as a
therapist and as a coach, I've had some assignments that were short
and highly focused and others that lasted for years.”
(Ref. Manfred Kets de Vries in HBR April 2014)

ALC is designed to be an intense and interactive course, and will unfold over four
(4) distinct segments spread across the semester.

PART A.

This inaugural part is designed to bring reflective focus on personal “leadership”

challenges, from both classroom as well as 01-on-01 sessions, by:

1. Filtering data from the ILPM (and Hay Group feedback-instrument, if

available),
2. Generating data about one’s own personality thru the use of two
psychometric tools, one on Leadership by David McClelland and the other
on Conflict Management by Thomas Kilmann, and finally
3. Crafting a short-list of one’s own strengths, and all that is “toxic” in oneself
that leads to dysfunctional relationships and blocks realization of one’s
leadership potential.

PART B.

This part will be dedicated towards:

1. Studying and preparing a history of the individual leader assigned to the

team,
2. Visiting the subject of Organization Psychodynamics thru appropriate film-
clips, a case-study, and classroom discussion,
3. Scoping a set of “Questions” for each leader, by each team,
4. Building the “psychosocial” profile of the leader assigned to the team, after
an initial 01-on-01 interface (either physically or thru Skype), and close
with
5. An interface between each team and the leader assigned, giving the
opportunity to probe further and understand deeper aspects of leadership
in-practice and the toxicity that inhibits realization of full potential.

The purpose of these interactions with the leader assigned will be to draft a
personal “Action Plan”, and take the learnings for practice into the next part.

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Each team will also be required to make a presentation, first to the Faculty and
then to the “leader”, highlighting her / his SWOT, along with an Action Plan.
.
PART C.

The purpose of this part will be to offer a platform to each student to:

# 1: test previously untested “fears’, “anxieties”, and “assumptions” that generate

toxicity in the self, and
# 2: develop insights and perspectives about one’s own strengths as they
manifest in the context of simulated groups and organizations.

The structure of this part will be on-campus sessions, using the international
Group Relations Conference (GRC) methodology of placing the individual in an
incubator for testing the efficacy of one’s own draft Action Plan, in real-time.

A detailed note about the GRC will be issued before the session. (Note: The
Class of 2018 recommended increase of the GRC sessions from 21 to 27, so as
to allow more time for reflection, and to practice behavior change.)

PART D.

1. A few concluding sessions on the subject of “toxicity” in individuals and

organizations. (Note: This was recommended by the Class of 2018.)
2. ALC will close with a final 01-on-01 with each student, wherein s/he will be
required to pull together all the learnings from the earlier parts and finalize
a doable personal “Action Plan” for the next 02 years.
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ALC is designed to offer confidential 01-on-01 sessions, on campus as
well as off-campus (thru Skype), to be finalized between the student
and the Faculty, especially after the GRC.

The following list of textbooks and articles are indicative of the

“Advanced” nature of this course.

TEXTBOOKS & ARTICLES

1. Destructive Emotions, by Daniel Goleman (Must have personal

copy; to be procured by IIMU)
2. Working with Emotional Intelligence, by Daniel Goleman

3. Conflict Mode Instrument, by Thomas Kilmann

4. The Achievement Motive, by David McClelland

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5. Psycho-social Stages of Human Development, by Erikson

6. “On Leadership: An Interview with Manfred Kets de Vries”

7. Learning to Lead: A Workbook on Becoming a Leader, by Warren Bennis &

Joan Goldsmith

8. Understanding Organizations, by Charles Handy

9. Organization Culture and Leadership, by Edgar Schein

10. Execution, by Larry Bossidy, Ram Charan with Charles Burck

Articles for additional reading will be distributed by the Faculty from time to
time, as the course unfolds.

GRADING
Class Participation 10%
Presentation of “Leader Study” by teams 15%
Participation in GRC 50%
Crafting a personal “Action Plan” 25%

Biography – MANAB BOSE

Manab Bose is currently Adjunct Faculty at IIM Udaipur where he has been
teaching this course since 2013. He is also a practicing Psychoanalytic
Psychotherapist at Sukrut Bangalore, a psychotherapy clinic. An MA in English
from Jadavpur University, he taught English Literature and Language in Nainital,
Delhi, Bhutan, Kolkata. His last assignment in academia was with National
Institute of Design, Ahmedabad.

Manab then joined industry and was there for 25+ years, the last 2+ years in the
Group Executive Office of Tata Group in Bombay House, reporting to Ratan Tata,
the then Chairman. Prior to this, he was on the top-management team of GE
India for almost a decade thru the 90s, involved in the entry & start-up of all GE
businesses in India. Earlier, he was Director with Colgate Palmolive India for
about five years, and Chief Training Manager at oil-major Bharat Petroleum for
another five years.

A British Council Scholar, Manab was part of the start-up team that founded the
Association of British Council Scholars, first in Mumbai and later in Bangalore. He

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attended the international Leicester Conference in UK in 2003 and 2004, and has
presented clinical papers at international and national conferences.

Google Search “MANAB BOSE” for more details.

. MANAB BOSE / 16 July 2019

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