WICI Seminar on Leadership: April 16th with Dr. Marc Hurwitz

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         On Tuesday, April 16th, from 2 to 4pm, WICI will receive Dr. Marc
Hurwitz, Assistant Professor in the School of Business and Economics at
Wilfrid Laurier University and President of Flipskills Consulting, for a
seminar. The seminar will take place in Mathematics 3, room 3103 at the
University of Waterloo.

Please* RSVP* on Eventbrite <http://www.eventbrite.ca/event/4397537152>.

Abstract:

The study of leadership dates back to the earliest records of human
endeavour – the Iliad and the stories of Gilgamesh are in large part
leadership fables. Early studies of leadership focused on the traits of
great leaders, or sometimes the tactics of great leaders. This was extended
in the 20th century to include leadership behaviours as well as situational
contingencies. Unfortunately, all this approaches have failed to produce
successful theories of leadership.

In this talk I’ll explore how leadership, considered as an in situ role in
group dynamics, leads to unsatisfactory models that explain or predict only
the smallest part of group behaviours and outcomes. Next, we’ll consider a
more robust approach that naturally leads us to complexity theory, and how
this requires a different way of theorizing and researching question of
‘leadership’.

Speaker Biography:

Marc Hurwitz is Assistant Professor of Organizational Behaviour in the WLU
Business School. He co-founded and runs a consulting firm which trains on
innovation, leadership, followership, and partnerships. Prior to WLU, Marc
worked for many years in private industry in HR, marketing, training, and
actuarial departments. He has a PhD from U. Waterloo in cognitive
neuroscience, master’s degrees in Math (U. Guelph) and Physics (McMaster
U.), and an MBA (WLU).
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