Mother Teresa, CEO? Could she have been a good CEO of a large global corporation?
Could Mother Teresa have been a good corporate leader of a large multinational company? Explain why you think she would have been a good corporate leader or why you think she would not have been a good corporate leader. Include your reasons for drawing your conclusion and outline any specific issues you think that her individual leadership style would have come up against in the corporate world.
Applicable Readings:
- James Kouzes and Barry Posner: Credibility is the Foundation of Leadership
- John Kotter: What Leaders Really Do
- Jim Collins and Jerry Porras: Clock Building, Not Time Telling
- Nitin Nohria and Rakesh Khurana: What Is Leadership? The CEO's Role in Large, Complex Organizations
- A.G. Lafley: What Only the CEO Can Do
- Jim Collins: Level 5 Leadership
- Rosabeth Kanter: How Great Companies Think Differently
- Phil Rosenweig: How Little We Know
- Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert Sutton: Profiting from Evidence-Based Management
- Michael Porter and Mark Kramer: Creating Shared Value