Heuristics on Leadership and the Use of Power: Advice to Your Future Self
Develop a set of heuristics or guidelines on leadership, influence, and the use of power.
Purposes Include:
(1) to synthesize ideas on leadership and the use of power developed
before and during the class,
(2) to integrate an ethical framework into the use of power,
(3) to stimulate discussion and collaboration among group members, and
(4) to produce a useful artifact from the class that group members can refer back to after the class is over.
This last purpose should be the most important long-term outcome of the course.
WHAT TO DO/INCLUDE:
Heuristics are a set of guidelines that people use to direct their activities. We all have a variety of heuristics in our lives, either formal or informal. A formal business heuristic might be a reorder point (trigger point) for reordering supplies like lumber, paper clips, or broccoli at work. An informal personal heuristic might be how much drive time you allow for when you travel to work.
Develop a set of heuristics for your practice of leadership and use of power.
Have at least thirty items, although you may certainly have more.
Your heuristics might include:
– Things you would do.
– Things you would not do.
– An ethical framework for the accumulation and use of power.
– Observations about the usefulness or effects of power.
You will need to provide an explanation for each heuristic in your list and why you chose
to include that.
A minimum of five of your heuristics should address ethical aspects of leadership and the
use of power (You may have overlap between these and other topics.).
