Maybe this is my life at Harvard, or even heard of most strange class. Although before class, have heard a lot of students about Ronald · sea Hafez (Ronald A. Heifetz) Professor of "leadership" of the class may be affected by the "tortured" by hearsay, but I still true classroom and surprised.
Shopping in the new semester class writter, gray sea Hafez Professor expressionless, tells us: "in the hope that those who have relatives who passed away recently, or newly divorced and shy students, do not take this course. "Professor claiming to be his course is a" pressure cooker (Pressure Cooker). "
"I am happy in the classroom make embarrassing or depressed, so you should prepare for the pain (Suffer). I know that students on this course, it was said to be ' dangerous ', it was also said to be ' mad ', I want to say is that I and my five assistants do here, in the classroom as we manufacture some of the ' risk ' (instead of risk), and later you will be, or has experienced a real ' leader ' faces and bear the risk of reality, where the risk compared to almost zero. Because in my view, be a able to play a leadership leader means that risks and pressure, some people even have been assassinated, pay the price of life. "In fact, and general courses, self psychoanalysis, listen to music, singing, writing free discussion and cinema is the sea Hafez Professor explains the important lessons of leadership. Graduated from Colombia University, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Kennedy School's Ronald · sea Hafez, was once a Harvard Medical School Psychiatry clinical Therapeutics, and lecturer at the school age he United States cello skin ya Piatigorsky (Gregor Piatigorsky) learning music, his "leadership" of unique understanding and research made him the Harvard Kennedy School Leadership Academy's founder. Sea Hafez, Professor in the leadership Academy in classic is no simple answer to the question of the leadership (Leadership Without Easy Answers), and the latest books are just by Harvard Business School Publishing published ropes of leadership (Leadership on the Line) (Ronald A. Heifetz/Martin Linsky co-author). Previous book focuses on the internal analysis of individual leaders and mining, then a book discussion leaders face, full of risk and changes in the external environment.
There is no class of Professor
Today, 10 minutes in class started, the Professor looked around sea Hafez sitting in classrooms full of students asked: "what do you want to learn today?" and "I want to learn the art of leadership. "A student's answer.
"We now have in learning the art of the road. "Professor answered after comfortably sitting on the Chair, with interest at all, not saying a Word.
90 students looked at each other, waiting for the professor's next action and speech. But Professor remain silent, expressionless.
"Although I know this is by arrangement of teaching methods, but I still can't understand why Professor so waste our time? I strongly protest. "In about 5 minutes of silence, was finally students break the silence:" If the professor thinks just students proposed is too vague, so I made more specific learning hope, hope, could you tell us something about the recent 5 years leading the field of mechanical said of the latest research and theory. ”
Immediately a large number of students responding, but sea Hafez Professor no rebuttal, and description. Some can't stand lonely students began to introduce themselves to each other and the experience of the name; it was also suggested that if the professor wants us to unordered State discussed election Leader?
"I think that is a waste of time, we are here to class, listen to our dear, the famous sea Hafez Professor of course, not to gossip, or sharing your own experience of watching the case, we can return to the home or Cafe to do them. "More and more lively discussions, students say:" did you forget to receive school instruction in wages not we, but sitting in front of us. So I hope we can keep quiet, silence, the only such situation can torment Professor Professor, forced to speak. ”
They retorted: "if quiet 30 minutes Professor nor speak? is it not more a waste of time?"
Another student said: "I guess everyone here student might have had 10 years of leadership (regardless of size), then all of us experience up to 900 years of leadership experience, so maybe we can put your own leadership experiences as case studies to discuss, if someone can convince everyone that we can also do Professor elected him. ”
Gradually, the students of the discussion is divided into two factions, one is not willing to agree to such a teaching method in the hope that through various methods to stimulate professors spoke those you think this is the leadership of learning content and start to persuade members of the selection to be in this class of leadership. However, because this class is almost everyone wants to become leaders, and leaders of the most difficult to — all want a class leader initiative are no one.
There are two more impatient students volunteered chalkboard to discussions issues of records on the Blackboard; also there are objections: think they have no reason to have similar teacher on the Blackboard's rights and authority; while others agree, and think that two students are truly the "leader", because only they let everyone see the lesson of "results". Two "Blackboard" had the effect of public opinion, continue to teach about two Blackboard fen frantically, hoping to tease out everyone exactly what you want to learn, and learned. While sea Hafez Professor quietly
In the Blackboard listen, none of the comments and responses.One and a half hours of the course is over one hour, the entire class is filled with such leaving, anarchy of heated debate and the speak freely. When someone said: "I'm beginning to like this way of course, in such a free discussion, Professor decides not to use his terms of reference of the ' teaching ', so that we can clearly observe, analyze their own and other people; we now encounter difficulty is Professor did not give us a regular discussion topics and structure; of course he can also design the scene more difficult, it is that he wasn't here to listen to us, so that this class has no Authority, then what happens?" after hearing this, sea Hafez Professor side happy smile nodded as he really went out of the classroom.
The essence of leadership
In fact, Hafez Professor once said that his leadership courses not ready-made modules cumulative, but students have the coherence, to participate in sports. "I don't know which should be about class modules, because I need to observe you in that lesson. "So when we are in this class of" strange "being confused, maybe you should look on the class of Professor.
Professor in first class on said: the leader is divided into two kinds, one kind is simply has to be the Government, companies, organizations, and so gives formal terms (formal Authority) leader; the other is the architect of the "informal" authority (Informal Authority) leader. In his view, only the latter can be called with the "leadership".
"Informal authority of establishment is extremely difficult, but to society and organizations played a decisive role. For example, I was taught Harvard empowerment here, but the formal terms of the number of students just because the terms of the ' official ' to listen? who can tell me this authority can buy to you how many minutes of attention? "asked the professor.
"5 ~ 10 minutes". Have students mercilessly replied. Indeed, many were at Harvard students sought after, worship, when the classroom on a seminar or stand or sit, Professor of memorabilia (such as sea Hafez), but there are some students left out, class of Professor of the "Museum".
"Actually I now can buy to how long you listen to the attention and time?" asked the professor.
"1 and a half hours" (Harvard class of time).
"Until you tell it swoon!" we all die, conceited, expressionless Professor can't help smiling red in the face. "So this is my informal authority at work. This course aims to ' exercise ' of such leadership. ”
In fact, the sea Hafez taught "leadership" and not just for the leader in leadership positions, or those that are organized empowerment of people, "the entire organizations and society as a bustling luxury party, if you have been keen to shuttle chat dancing, even if you work in the shortest possible time and maximum of partner dancing chat, you wouldn't understand the overall situation of the dance. You should be dancing while went to the balcony, or from the ball high stairs quiet observation in order to gain insight into the entire scene and dance scenes, so that my time and energy on the ball of the oversight and error, and correct these errors, adjust the footwork, even changing the way forward. ”
"Not only have the official authoritative leaders need to do this, those who do not have statutory authority, but to become a leader and leadership are more should be done. "The professor said:" many people mistakenly believe that with the terms of the ' official ' holds the leadership, but in my eyes, I prefer the ' statutory official authority ' as ' service (Service) ' ".
"When I do a Clinical psychiatrist, I ' formal competence ' is used in my experience and knowledge to help patients to solve some problems, I will listen to the patient's oral, but I will not be according to his oral will open out the prescription and recommendations; I have more detail on his face and behavior, his description into his body and spirit, life and work of the internal links. Many people are not aware of their physical and social, work and life changes are closely linked. A description of patients under the judgement of the doctor is horrible. ”
"Similarly, consultant and Professor's task is more than just tell someone he made what he wanted. Now there are also many CEO complains that in the lack of leadership in the Organization, many consulting firms and experts will tell him for this many how to get a sense of authority, but in fact, many people speak out of problems are not the problem itself; maybe the CEO of problems is actually very possible and leadership itself not only because he has recently made a company we all dislike of reform. His solution is to modify the new proposal. ”
Thus, the Professor would like students in this course, absolutely free environment, able to deep mining out their own potential and inner energy, and know how to use this capability to influence (weaknesses), judgment of potential and energy followers.
Back to today's lesson, Professor at the school before once again entered the classroom, declared that "the end of the class. "Subsequent arrangement the following issue that requires students to hand the Church class under detailed answers. Perhaps, from the need to reflect on the problems we see in this class of meaning: the essence of leadership is in recognition of a real-world process, constantly observe ourselves and others to fully express yourself, and your goals and desires of others, and finally realize the goal.
Lesson questions:
1. today's classroom did some what? what do?
2. are you in the classroom is how to describe, express themselves? you didn't introduce and show which dimensions, experience, and why?
> 3. Class initial signs and manifestations? these signs are impacting the performance of your later?4. do you think we in this class to do some "work"? How do you define and explain the "work"?
5. class is "working" signs are evaded? how do you define and explain the work of the "escape"?
6. do you make any interference action you whether there are effects of interference?
7. in the class of the process, do you have a "sense of belonging", whether or not to feel that they belong to this team, please describe your feelings.
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