Week 11: Communication & Pitch Perfect

The Barden Bellas follow a very hierarchical leadership structure and the leaders make all the decisions. While they have two leaders in their organization, Aubrey typically ends up making the decisions based upon what she thinks is best.

Week 13–14: Leadership (Dave)

Contained within the movie, Dave, one can find examples of the leadership theories discussed in chapter 9: Communicating Leadership, so let’s examine 4 of the 5 leadership theories:

Teams and Networks

I noticed some confusion over the differences between teams and networks in your blog posts. So, here’s a short overview that may help clear it up.

Weeks 13 and 14 — Leadership and the Dark Side of Organizational Communication

Who do you consider a leader? This person(s) you think of need not be a head of state or a CEO. What specific characteristics about that person make her such an effective example of a leader…

“A factory is its people, not its bricks”

“This week’s movie, Kinky Boots, is a story about reinvention. Charlie Price is trying to save his family business and has to make some changes to their competitive strategy to do so. He also demonstrates remarkable commitment to his employees. You could write a post about Charlie…

Week 13 & 14: Leadership and the Dark Side

In thinking about this week’s post it was difficult for me to think of a real life…

Week 15: Kinky Boots and What Women Want

This was my first time watching Kinky Boots and I really enjoyed this movie, not only…

Comcast’s Identity Crisis and the Birth of Xfinity

Week 10 Post

This week’s prompts included:

Find an example of a personal or organizational brand meltdown and describe how the person or organization used different elements of…

Week 15 — Strategies and Mediated Communication

The first part of Chapter 10 is about various kinds of strategic organizational behavior: strategic thinking, strategic alignment or positioning, competitive strategy. Strategic thinking involves using data to making deliberate choices about the…

Week 16 — Wrapping Up

Well, we’re almost there. We don’t have new reading material this week, but we do have a new movie — The Social Network. I like to end with this movie because it’s a good one and because it connects way back to chapters 1 and 6 while telling a story about communication technology and…