Word: heifetz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Heifetz is having a definite impact on the K-School. Two hundred people entered a lottery for the 120 spots in the class as a result of Heifetz's popularity as a professor and the fact that his class is one of only three management courses available for mid-career students at the school this term...
While the class is, on the face of it, studying leadership, it is also observing leadership in action. Heifetz terms his use of classroom dynamics "an extension of the case method...
...instance of failed leadership and to have a class member become a leader by conducting the meeting. During the course's group meetings, each person fills out a graded questionnaire about he session. Among the many question is "What do you think the hidden agenda was at the meeting?" Heifetz also delivers a three-hour lecture each week and leads a "de-briefing session" where the "class leader" and the "case presenter" of each of the 12 sections meet with the professor's four teaching assistants to discuss the unobserved session...
...addition to his popularity among students at the K-School, Heifetz's teaching style has been experienced by a majority of the graduate school's faculty through the seminars he has conducted on weekends throughout the year...
Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy Jose A. Gomez-Ibanez, who teaches at the K-School and the Graduate School of Design, estimates that one-half of the former's faculty has gone on one of Heifetz's three-day retreats. Gomez-Ibanez says the seminar helped him understand and appreciate his unusual teaching methods. Of the course's strategy, he says "some things can't be told but have to be experienced...