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Learning Activity #1

After completing your reading decide on at least five major tenets which can be used to lead successful innovation in business. Then reach out to the Internet and find companies whose leaders illustrate the tenets you have chosen to substantiate your choices. In evaluating your choices make sure to define what innovation means, what types of innovation exist in business, and how these types affect the way leaders lead an innovative organization. Here is a place that might start off your research.

http://businesscasestudies.co.uk/case-studies/by-topic/operations.html#operations-innovation

Other resources:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKV3rhzvaC8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oD7X3KvJAVk

http://www.innovationmanagement.se/2013/05/06/leading-an-innovative-company/

http://www.forbes.com/sites/glennllopis/2014/04/07/5-ways-leaders-enable-innovation-in-their-teams/

http://www.strategy-business.com/article/10408?gko=08375%2f

http://www.strategy-business.com/article/00255?pg=all

Learning Activity #2

Since week one you have been comparing and contrasting leadership between the 20th and 21stcenturies along with the ways businesses are changing in the 21st century. Then you were asked to create a list of five new businesses from your reading. Select one of your new business ideas and create the innovative company to match your “new idea”. Create the culture and structure that would be sure to make the company successful. Also, define the traits you would need to lead the company.

Add this article to you reading to help complete the exercise.

https://hbr.org/2014/12/research-10-traits-of-innovative-leaders

You can use some of resources from Learning Activity #1 and extra listed below:

http://www.inc.com/ty-montague/the-future-of-business-innovation-invent-the-company-that-will-put-your-company-.html

http://www.bpinetwork.org/thought-leadership/views-commentary/373/pivotal_practices_for_leading_innovation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3hTB0S1Gts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEusrD8g-dM

Learning Activity #3

Theories of corporate responsibility would suggest that sustainability in the 21st Century can only be satisfied by business. Government is too localized to successfully garner the world’s resources. Assuming that to be true all business leaders must integrate sustainability into the companies they lead no matter the size or leadership position they hold.  

Based on your reading explain the meaning of the quote. Include in your explanation the role of the sustainable leader and whether you agree with Nidumolu’s assessment that it is the way to transition to the new economy of the 21st century.  Be specific in your explanation by using examples of successful sustainability leadership from your reading.  

Resources:

http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/sustainable-business-important-corporate-america

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9-Khm_ghHA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5unzmWAIdg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBqnXNQywvs

http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/blog/sustainability-good-for-business

Learning Activity #4

Research on the Internet, after using your reading for background material, a small business that has successfully used sustainable leadership to build the organization. In your example be sure to illustrate the ways in which the leaders have incorporated principles of sustainable leadership.

Use resources from internet and combine them with resources below: Resources: http://www.millwardbrown.com/docs/default-source/insight-documents/points-of-view/MillwardBrown_POV_Brand_Sustainabiliy.pdf

http://www.forbes.com/2010/09/08/sustainability-change-management-leadership-citizenship-human-capital-10-mitsloan.html

http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/askenvironmentlineapp/question.aspx?qaId=AEL-89

http://www.greenbiz.com/blog/2013/10/04/four-tips-small-businesses-sustainability-success

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5unzmWAIdg

Learning Activity #5

Describe the Leadership Landscape of the 20th and 21st centuries then explain the types and kinds of change it engendered or engenders. Why will effectuating change be the leaders hardest and most important task in the years to come?  

Resources:

http://www.mckinsey.com/insights/leading_in_the_21st_century/leading_in_the_21st_century

http://leadershipwatch-aadboot.com/2011/05/27/leading-change-in-the-21st-century-the-power-of-letting-go/

http://bedtimesmagazine.com/2002/11/21st-century-management-how-the-game-has-changed/

https://www.magzter.com/article/Business/Forbes-India/Google-Is-About-To-Change-Everything-Again

http://www.regent.edu/acad/global/publications/jsl/vol3iss1/Fournier_V3I1_pp7-23.pdf

http://www.strategy-business.com/article/00255?pg=all

Learning Activity #6

In the McKinsey article “Leader Change Thyself”, the author says that organizations do not change people do. If the role of the leader in today’s business environment is to move people, and to create change you must move followers, what strategies do you suggest the 21st century leader adopt to create and maintain effective change in the organizational culture? Identify at least four strategies of change. If you were the project director of Coca Cola and you wanted to make New Coke a success how might you have employed your strategies for change to make New Coke a reality?

http://www.coca-colacompany.com/history/the-real-story-of-new-coke

Resources: http://www.reliableplant.com/Read/18706/leadership-techniques-to-empower-people-during-change-initiatives

http://leadershipwatch-aadboot.com/2012/01/06/leading-change-in-the-21st-century-4-myths-about-cultural-change/

http://www.mckinsey.com/insights/leading_in_the_21st_century/change_leader_change_thyself