MBA617 Weekly Podcast

In this final week, we will explore leadership theories on gender, culture, and diversity. While reactions to diversity vary, great leaders recognize it as key to building world-class teams. A diverse team, when well-led and motivated, gives an organization a unique edge. Discussions often focus on demographics like gender and race, but psychological diversity—personality, values, and abilities—ca...

Leadership must reflect our values and ethics. Ethics supply the foundation of values and morals. Values supply the power that drives our leadership, whereas our morals represent our standards of right and wrong. So, the practice of ethical leadership is a two-part process involving personal moral behavior and moral influence. A mark of great leadership is how many great people will join their gre...

This week as you begin to examine and study adaptive leadership, think about in what capacity God gifts you to help the development of others. How do you exercise that gift? How do you apply adaptive leadership principles to your professional field and your MBA studies?  As we enter Week 5, we’ll explore adaptive leadership and followership theories. Adaptive leadership focuses on mobilizing follo...

This week, as you begin researching and examining the servant leadership theory, think deep and wide about how this truth of leading by serving is important for someone who desires to become an effective leader and how they can illuminate the aspects of servant leadership.  As we move into Week 4, we will examine authentic and servant leadership theories more deeply, focusing on the servant leader...

The impact of becoming a transformational leader will bring the most significant change in your life and into the lives of those around you. If your actions inspire people to dream more, do more, and become more, then you are a transformational leader. You influence people to think, speak, and act in ways that make a positive influence in their lives and in the lives of others. And that kind of le...

We are all preparing to become the best leaders we can be. As we move into Week 2, consider how you currently use situational or consistent leadership to develop the skills of others around you.  In Week 2, we will discuss situational leadership and path-goal theory. You will understand leadership and its usefulness in particular organizational settings and path-goal theory as a motivational appro...

Each of you brings to your learning experience an individual perspective shaped by the events and choices of your past years.  As we move into Week 1, we will dig deep into leadership theory and business ethics. You will research and explore the differences between the traits, skills, and behavioral approaches to leadership. In addition, you will be introduced to self-leadership strategies for acc...

Welcome Emerging MBA617 Leaders! Hi, I’m Dr. Valerie Arguello! It is my honor to welcome you to Leadership in Business. I am very excited to be your instructor this semester, and I cannot wait to meet you when this course officially begins. In my greeting, I call you “Emerging MBA Leaders” because we are all on a journey to learn the importance of leadership in business. We are all learning and gr...