Welcome to the 15.990 Practicing Management shared web space
to connect to our other course resources: stellar site class blog Practicing Management initiative home page includes upcoming seminar-workshops
how to use this space
This is a wiki in which every one of you is an editor and contributor. We are using it to collect resources and develop ideas and content--material that can have a life beyond our class and be useful to you in the years to come.
Our collective 15.990 TOOLKIT
Here are some of the tools that have helped the projects to hum along
TOOLKIT quick shared web pages
TOOLKIT for planning and running virtual and real meetings
TOOLKIT manage crunched schedules via excel scheduler
TOOLKIT nonnegotiable weekly meetings
TOOLKIT daily ten-minute plan
TOOLKIT weekly update template
TOOLKIT triangulate feedback
Specific topics
these are things that we all think are important for any manager to be effective!
Getting Organized
Offering feedback
Effective Meetings
Positive Emotions
Argyris on learning traps and how to get the information you need to avoid them
Class Logistics
individual meetings with me
Please click through here to sign up for optional office hours with Anjali Sastry on Tuesday 20 November or Wednesday 21 November.
Please click through here to sign up for individual office hours with Anjali Sastry on Wednesday 5 December, Thursday 6 December, or Friday 7 December.
From last year, notes:
To prepare for the first meeting
To prepare for the second meeting
To prepare for the third meeting