1. Models of Leadership November 21, 2000

2. Agenda Abby Joseph Cohen Discussion Craig Venter Discussion (Contd.) Profiles –Alfred Sloan: Jeanine Maresca –George Marshall: Linda Lei Zang,Felice Schwartzburg Managing Your Team –Andrew Hinchcliff, John Mitchell Rudi Gassner and the Executive Committee of BMG International: Case and Discussion –Jerry Schneider, Kelly Shanley

3. Craig Venter What qualities are essentialfor the leadership of “radical” or “breakthrough” activities? Is Venter: –A Jerk? –A Genius? –A Pragmatist? –A Victim? –A Leader?

4. Alfred Sloan How and why were Ford’s and Sloan’s approaches to leadership different? To what extent do Sloan’s leadership philosophies and practices have validity in the current business environment? How might Sloan encounter difficulties if he was a leader today?

5. George Marshall What were his key Leadership capabilities? In which environments was he most successful, and why? Contrast Marshall’s abilities as a direct and indirect leader

6. Managing Your Team Hallmarks of effective teams –Quality and value of its output –Development of its members –Revitalization and regeneration Managers as Coaches Team selection, processes and culture Leadership and Managerial Challenges?

7. Rudi Gassner

8. Rudi Gassner/BMG What Characteristics of this Industry are critical to this the situation analyzed in this Case Key Leadership Challenges: 1987-93 –Taking Charge –Structure/Strategy –Team Building

9. The Executive Committee, 1993 Committee Role Committee Makeup The Key Question: Adjusting Business Targets “No one at the table responded or looked in Gassner’s direction. Gassner then wondered how he could get them to address the question…a possibility they seemed unwilling to even consider.” Resolution