This course explores the tangled paths to ethical problems. It is designed to sensitize you to the subtle traps and to suggest strategies to avoid or extricate yourself from them: whether they are internal, cultural, organizational or societal.
Learning Objectives
- Learning Outcomes
- Define what it means to be strategic
- Describe 8 characteristics of strategic thinking
- Identify 5 roles to enhance your strategic skill set and improve how others see you in the organization
- Identify 5 roles for developing strategic skills in your subordinates, team-mates, and coworkers
Major Topics
- "The Amygdala Made Me Do It"
- Adventures Along the Brain's Low Road;"That's Not the Way We Do It Here"
- Classic Cultural Pitfalls;"How Do You Know That"
- The Assumption Trap; Fear, Confusion, Hesitation and Surprise: The Four Poisons of the Mind;Step by Step into the Big Muddy " The Vietnam Syndrome; Paving the Path to Hell: Unintended Consequences;"This Phone Call Never Happened"
- Confidentiality and Secrecy
