Topic：全球领导团队领导力建设
Speaker：Robert J. Thomas
Executive director of the Accenture Institute
Professor of Leadership at the Brandeis International Business School
Time：10:00-11:30am, Friday, Oct. 22, 2010
Location：Room 216, New Building of GSM, Peking University.
About the Speaker：Bob leads the Accenture Institute for High Performance, which is Accenture’s global “think and act tank” with professional researchers based in Boston, Beijing, Chicago, Delhi, and London. The Institute provides Accenture with original research and actionable insights on the global political economy and on the latest developments in business practice.
In his role as a senior executive at Accenture, Bob has worked with top executive groups in Fortune 100 companies to help them become more effective as leadership teams. He has designed and led leader development programs based on his book Crucibles of Leadership in organizations as diverse as a global software developer, a national electrical utility, a major research university, and a transnational media company.
In his role as a professor at Brandeis International Business School, Bob teaches courses on the personal and organizational dimensions of leadership to mid-career executives from all over the world and from business, government, the armed forces, and NGOs. He also maintains his affiliation to MIT through his participation in the Sloan Fellows, the Leaders for Manufacturing, and the Greater Boston Executive programs. In addition, he periodically teaches in executive sessions for the Harvard Business Review, the Center for Management Research, and the International Consortium for Executive Development Research.
His newest book, Crucibles of Leadership: How to Learn from Experience to Be a Great Leader, has been hailed by Harvard’s Rosabeth Moss Kanter as “a guide for aspiring leaders in all walks of life” and by Wharton’s Mike Useem as “an organizational playbook for transforming managers into leaders.” In 2002, he co-authored with Warren Bennis a book, entitled Geeks and Geezers: How Era, Values, and Defining Moments Shape Leaders that explores the motivations and aspirations of leaders in their under the age of 35 and over the age of 70. A BusinessWeekbest seller and translated into 11 languages, thebook was recently reissued with a new introductionas Leading for Lifetime. He is the co-author with Peter Cheese and Elizabeth Craig of The Talent Powered Organization, one of the first systematic efforts to chart a strategy for talent management in the global enterprise. He is also co-author with Rob Cross of the first management book that applies network theory to leadership and organizational performance, Driving Results Through Social Networks, (2009 with Jossey-Bass) and a companion volume of case studies entitled the Organizational Networks Fieldbook (2010). His first major book, What Machines Can’t Do: Politics and Technology in the Industrial Enterprise, won the 1994 C. Wright Mills Award of the Society for the Study of Social Problems. Bob has been a featured speaker at dozens of corporate and NGO events, including those sponsored by Business Week, Harvard Business Review, MIT-Sloan School, Conference Board, Society for Human Resource Management, PBS, McGraw-Hill corporate learning, the Young Presidents Organization, the Treasury Executive Institute and NASA.
