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SES # 1 TOPICS Introduction and overview KEY QUESTIONS What challenges can I expect in my first job? What do I want/expect from my work/career? How is this similar or different from what my parents and grandparents wanted and expected?

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Work and careers: Past, present, and future

Leading and facilitating teams: An engineering team exercise

How can I make my team work well?

Organizations: Past, present, future

How did the modern organization evolve and where is it going?

Organizational analysis: Strategic design lens

How do I analyze and make sense of the organizational structure in which I am working?

Organizational analysis: Political lens

Who will share my interests and who won't? Who has power, and how will it affect what I do?

Putting the political lens to work: Influencing upward in organizations

How do I sell my great idea to higher authorities?

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Organizational analysis: Cultural lens

What traditions matter in an organization, and how do they affect what goes on?

The cultural lens in action: The Lincoln Electric case

Why has Lincoln Electric's incentive compensation system worked for decades while most others' have failed?

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TOPICS Applying the three lenses: BP and lessons from the Gulf Coast disaster Teams in organizations Team processes: Strategies for building a high performance team Midterm exam Introduction to negotiations

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How do I negotiate when it looks like I have no power?

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Recruitment and job offer negotiation

What should I ask for? What should I offer?

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Interest-based bargaining in action: Riggs Engineering case study

Can I put the internet-based tools of Fisher and Ury to work in a real life negotiation? How do I sell this agreement to my "constituents" or superiors?

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Leadership and change: Introductions

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Leadership and change (cont.) Leadership continued: The Big Dig, Part 1 Leadership continued: The Big Dig, Part 2 What structural, political, and cultural challenges have to be addressed to integrate multiple agencies into a single efficient transportation organization and system?

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Organizational change: MassDOT case

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TOPICS Managing the innovation process

KEY QUESTIONS How do ideas move from the laboratory through the organization to the marketplace?

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Corporate responsibility in global supply chain

What purpose(s) should corporations serve? Should Nike and other global corporations be held responsible for the practices of their suppliers? If so, how?

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Team reports on change project

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Inventing the future: Wrap-up

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