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"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world”
– Nelson Mandela

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Week One learning Activity

Week One learning Activity

Q 1. How did Carter (played by Topher Grace) frame his opening comments as the new manager for the department? Did he develop collective talent or create dependency?

Q 2. Do you think that Dan (played by Dennis Quaid) is influenced by carter’s comments on Synergy? How do leadership buzzwords distract people from authentic meaning?

Q 3. What theories of Leadership do you think are in Carter’s mental models?

Q 4. Carter ultimately fails in their role, explain how charisma can be a sign of leadership as empty salesmanship.

Q 5. Carter states that he is a “machine”. Can you link this statement to a mechanistic view of the organization

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Department and managerial functions points out towards the entrepreneurship skills of any individual and that requires meddling with the theories of Organizational behavior. Leaders have certain traits and behaviors that plays a crucial role in their delivery. The opening statements of Carter’s in Good Company emphasizes upon the need to change in the existing processes of the organization. He wants to play dynamic but could not as the team in front of him fails to get an idea of the agenda which is