A633.7.3.RB_Leader Follower Relationship

I guess it would be rather forward of me to say, “No my thinking hasn’t changed because I know I was a strong leader before” but for all intensive purpose, I truly feel that way.  I am very much a “pistol” in that when I set my mind to do something, or be something, I don’t often deviate from the path I lay for myself or my professional growth.  I understand we are all human and we have areas in which we can grow and change and manifest in a newer person but I don’t think this course has really altered me in a significant way.  I understand I am smarter, I have read another interesting textbook and that I am progressing through my MS in Leadership but I am not a chaotic decision maker and I like a I love my neurotic patterns and strategic ways of doing things.  I would venture to say that to some degree my thinking will constantly but this course missed the mark for me.

I think the reason I am not impressed with this course or the material is because I took a strategy course last summer that was in the MGMT program and it really showed all different types of strategic theories and didn’t hone in on one type.  I was really hoping this course would show strategy differently but it seems like all we have talked about is chaos theory and complexity and to me that is just a small part of strategy and how strategic leaders think.  I don’t think I applied a lot in this course and I think many of the assignments fell flat; I expected more.  I know that my job now makes me one of the harder critics but hard critics are what make good courses along with strong content and faculty.

In regards to the significance of this courses content in the context of my future leadership goals and objectives, unfortunately for me I won’t take much from this course going forward.  I was extremely let down by the course materials, the way the assignments were laid out, and mainly the content.  I am bummed and I am looking forward to wrapping this course and moving on

I would like to note that this assignment was not easy to follow because the website link provided in the textbook didn’t take me directly to the results I needed to find.