Re Seminar No. 4 Reading

1. What Is Leadership

A thorough understanding of the Seminar Reading as presented by the authors

Re Seminar No. 6 Readings

1. No, Management Is Not a Profession

What are the distinguishing characteristics of professions? What arguments does

the author put forward to support his claim that management is not a profession? Do you agree with the author? What was the most important point put forward by Roger Martin in response to the author's arguments?

1. How Little We know

What is the mother of all business questions? And why are explanations of company performance so often riddled with clichs and simplistic phrases?

How does the author use the examples of Lego and Nokia to support his argument that we know very little about how to answer that mother of all business questions?

1. Profiting from Evidence-Based Management

What exactly is this idea of evidence-based management? From what field has this idea been taken? Be sure that you make a very careful study of the nine implementation principles that should be followed in practising evidence-based management. You should, at least, be able to explain four of these.