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McKee Chapter 16:
MANAGING AND LEADING FOR TOMORROW: A
FOCUS ON YOUR FUTURE
CHAPTER OBJECTIVES
16.1 Learn how some of the best leaders today make an impact on others.
CHAPTER SUMMARY
Chapter 16 begins by taking a look at “great leaders” and the impact they have on us.
Then we examine some “moon shots for management” such as ensuring the work of
management serves a higher purpose, developing holistic performance measures, and
depoliticizing decision making.
CHAPTER OUTLINE
Teaching Objective: To stress the importance of being a leader by actions that can be taken and
skills that need to be developed
I. Why Do “Great Leaders” Move Us?
1. Meng’s book, Search Inside Yourself, helps us understand that change, even change in
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II. What are “Moon Shots for Management”?
• 25 changes and challenges we need to address if we are to learn how to manage and lead
our organizations more responsibly
1. Ensure that the work of management serves a higher purpose
2. Fully embed the ideas of community and citizenship in management systems.
10. De-structure and disaggregate the organization.
11. Dramatically reduce the pull of the past.
12. Share the work of setting direction.
13. Develop holistic performance measures.
14. Stretch executive time frames and perspectives.
15. Create a democracy of information
III. How Can You Continue Your Journey to Becoming a Resonant Leader?
1. Be a Leader each and every day
2. Embrace change and be part of a solution
IV. What Can You Do To Develop Your Leadership?
A. Making Leadership Development Fun—and Effective
1. If you want to make meaningful and lasting changes in the skills and competencies
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c. Create a learning plan that is truly meaningful to you
d. Experiment
B. Exploring Your Vision and What You Want to Change
1. Identify what is most important to you: your values and beliefs
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
Discussion Questions for Objective 16.1:
1. When you wake up for the day are you generally excited about the work you have to do, or are
you resentful of work’s challenges? How can you create a positive perception of your work?
Suggested Answer:
Student responses will vary. Have a positive outlook on the day, if not it will reflect not only in
2. Look back through all the leaders featured in the Leadership Perspective sections of this book.
Who can you relate to the best? Who inspires you the most? What life lessons did you gain from
these leaders?
Suggested Answer:
Student responses will vary. Example from chapter 16: Chade-Meng Tan of google is a very
Discussion Questions for Objective 16.2:
1. Given all that you have learned in this course about changes in societies, technologies, and the
world’s economies, what bold, new approaches to managing and leading can you imagine?
Create three recommendations that are specific, actionable and different from those discussed in
this section.
Suggested Answer:
2. Choose one of the moon shots, or one that you believe should be added to the list, and identify
five actions you can take now to address the issue/challenge/change.
Suggested Answer:
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Student responses will vary. One example: Further Unleash Human Imagination- you can do this
Discussion Questions for Objective 16.3:
1. Where in your life can you start to take up leadership roles and responsibilities? How will you
demonstrate leadership—and to whom? How will this behavior help others?
Suggested Answer:
Student responses will vary. You can take up leadership roles and responsibilities almost
2. Consider the organizations where you go to school, do business, or work. Do they support
your values and ethics? How so? If they do not, what can or should you do about it? How can
you stand up for your values and ethics in organizational life?
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Discussion Questions for Objective 16.4:
1. Which exercises did you find the most revealing? Why do you think the exercises were
capable of doing that? In working through the exercises, what were you surprised to learn about
yourself?
Suggested Answer:
Student responses will vary.
2. What does lifelong learning mean to you? How will you evoke curiosity, avoid complacency,
and engage others with the intention of learning from them?
Suggested Answer:
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ADDITIONAL SUPPORTING MATERIALS
VIDEOS
• Gary Hamel on “Moon Shots For Management”
• Chade-Meng Tan on Compassion at Google
“To create the conditions for global compassion, all we have to do is to reframe compassion as
• How to Develop Your Leadership
“Developing your leadership is a journey that does not start with acquiring competencies. It
• What Great Bosses know about Leadership Styles
“Every manager has a leadership style. Just ask the staff. Great bosses understand they need to