Blog: Reading Response

Christensen and Kirsten Shu, “What is an Organization’s Culture?” Holly Shroth, “It’s Not About Winning, It’s About Getting Better,” Noah Askin and Gianpiero Petriglieri, “Tony Hsieh at Zappos: Structure, Culture and Change,”Three Readings are attached.Reflected on the readings enough to have your own thoughts to advance the broad conversation about leadership. What left you really thinking from the week’s readings? Why is this important to you? What about other leaders? Jump into the global conversation about leadership and get comfortable voicing your opinions, ideas and critique! 1. Blogs are written in the first person and clearly demonstrate student understanding, thinking and thoughtful response to required readings. 2. Blogs always begin with a main point (clearly stated in the first paragraph and bolded or highlighted) and include paragraphs with clear purpose and effective transitions to build a cohesive case around your main point. 3. Blogs reflect student introspection and critical thinking as applied to the authors’ ideas. For more information on critical thinking: http://www.criticalthinking.org/pages/defining-critical-thinking/766 4. Blogs should include your opinion of the readings, and some connection to current events, your work, other courses, and/or personal experiences. You don’t have to agree with the authors! 5. Blogs always include discussion of a minimum of two authors and how their ideas differ, connect, interact, etc. Always name the authors (use last names only, never include article titles, and use the abbreviated “et al.” when there are three or more authors on a particular article). 6. Blogs are never a review or summary of the readings; they are a response to the readings.