James G. Clawson

University of Virginia | UVa · Darden School of Business

Fundamentals of Level Three Leadership (it's ALL about VABEs) divides the concepts in this theory into one per chapter. Each of the short 2-4 page 143 chapters have a definition, example, illustration, and provocative questions. No extraneous verbosity. Browse the Table of Contents and get a short pithy itch to your curiosity.

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Describes the FIRO-B assessment instrument and how to interpret the data it produces.

Structured as one concept per chapter, this book summarizes the 140+ concepts that form the basis for becoming an effective executive.

The Book of VABEs from A Song of Humanity: A Science-Based Alternative to the World's Scriptures describes what VABEs are and how they dominate human behavior. (semi-conscious, pre-conscious, and conscious Values, Assumptions, Beliefs and Expectations about the way the world is or should be.)

This the 12th chapter in A Song of Humanity: a Science-Based Alternative to the World's Scriptures. Drawing on early childhood development literature, the chapter provides a primer for parents and individuals and a way to think about how one becomes one's own person and not just a viral shell passing on the genes and VABEs of the previous generatio...

This chapter in A Song of Humanity explores the question what, if any, human rights are inalienable and which are granted by governments.

Chapter One from A Song of Humanity: a Science-Based Alternative to the World's Scriptures summarizes in a style parents can read to their children the history of the universe and of mankind, Homo Sapiens. See www.a-song-of-humanity.com OR www.nadobimakoba.com for more information.

Having read all of the world's major scriptures, I wanted to leave a science-based alternative to the mountains of misinformation that they contain. Written in book-chapter-verse format and as a lyrical conversation between parent and child, the book presents a summary of what science has learned about who we are and whence we came.

Purpose – This paper introduces readers to the usefulness of, design of, and an example of a custom executive education program charter. As such, charters are posed as a key task to complete at the outset of a new custom executive education provider/client relationship. Design/methodology/approach – This paper codifies the attributes of a well-con...

Textbook introducing and describing Level Three Leadership focusing on the power of influence at the level of our semi-conscious Values, Assumptions, Beliefs and Expectations about the way the world is or should be.

This case provides an instrument that asks students to assess their view of self along 26 dimensions and then to seek an assessment on the same dimensions from acquaintances. Students are then guided through scoring and interpreting the instrument. The case is intended for use with Steven Taylor's Interpersonal Style Inventory (UVA-PACS-0029) and C...

Suitable for undergraduate, graduate, and executive education programs, this version of the K2 story provides the full version of the story based on sequential dates. Written as a replacement for the much-used Greenland Case (UVA-OB-0581) this undisguised case can be taught in a similar manner. Chris Warner led a team of experienced mountain climbe...

We have used Global Markets twice now and found that it serves our purposes well. It is easy to administer, highly engaging, lots of fun, instructive, full of energy and enthusiasm, and conducive to study-group cohesion and effectiveness. It allows everyone in a study group to contribute to the success of the group; it is easy to learn and nontechn...

Suitable for graduate level and executive education programs, this undisguised case describes the life of Dennis Paustenbach, president and CEO of ChemRisk, and what, to his mind, is the typical life of a senior executive: many demands on one’s time, multiple projects, and serious consequences for inattention, both personally and professionally. Th...

This note presents a unified way of writing resumes by comparing them to short stories, where every detail, from the formatting to the choice of words, contributes to a set of impressions, either favorable or unfavorable, that will be left with the reader/recruiter. Writers are encouraged to work backward from their target audience rather than forw...

This material presents the answers to the first four questions of the written interview introduced in Self Assessment and Career Development (Prentice Hall, 1991). It will help students gain understanding of the instrument and gain skill in interpreting it. (Part B is in PACS-0034.)

This material describes what happened to Steven Taylor following the submission of his career-development paper at the end of a career-management course. Events take place in the spring of 1988.

This material is about Steven Taylor's Figure Test answers and scores. It is used to help students gain familiarity with and skill in interpreting the Figure Test.

This material presents Steven Taylor's lifestyle diagram, an assignment in a career-management class designed to allow students free creative rein in depicting their lifestyles in the past, present, and future. These data will help students gain skill in understanding and interpreting this instrument before they analyze their own data.

This material Presents Steven Taylor's Dyad Exercise feedback sheet. These data will help students gain skill in understanding and interpreting this instrument before they analyze their own data.

This material presents the life-themes list that Steven Taylor's work on his self-assessment paper (PACS-0041) generated. Students can use it to evaluate the labels along criteria established in a career-management course.

This material presents Steven Taylor's scores on this instrument, designed to begin to measure a person's creativity. These data will help students gain skill in understanding and interpreting this instrument before they analyze their own data.

This material presents Steven Taylor's SII profile. These data will help students gain skill in understanding and interpreting this instrument before they analyze their own data.

This material presents Steven Taylor's self-assessment paper, written halfway through a course on career management. Students can use these data to compare their own plans for writing a paper and to see what one looks like.

This material presents Steven Taylor's resume at the time of graduation from a Top 10 national business school. Students can use these data along with others to assess what Steven should do in his job search and to compare his resume with their own.

This material presents a set of data for the Predisposition Test. These data will help students gain skill in understanding and interpreting this instrument before they analyze their own data.

This material presents Steven Taylor's data on this instrument. These data will help students gain skill in understanding and interpreting this instrument before they analyze their own data.

This material shows Steven Taylor's answers and scores on the McBer Learning Style Inventory. These data will help student's gain skill in understanding and interpreting this instrument before they analyze their own data.

This material presents the text of Steven Taylor's job-search diary as he looked for a job in the spring of 1989. These data may help students anticipate and manage their own job-search activities.

This material describes what happened to Steven Taylor following the Epilogue case (PACS-0047), when he didn't find a job in the United States and went to Hong Kong to search for a job in order to satisfy his curiosity about the Far East.

This material presents Steven Taylor's scores on the FIRO-B instrument, a measure of interpersonal style. These data will help students gain skill in understanding and interpreting this instrument before they analyze their own data.

This is a copy of Steven Taylor's career-development paper written at the end of a career-management course. It shows his themes, implications for work, choices of job-search activity, a job-search calendar, preferred lifestyle, and other career-planning-related sections.

This short note shows the job-option and decision-making charts made by a second-year MBA student trying to decide which of three job offers to accept. The spreadsheet model includes personal criteria, weights, ratings, and comparative data. The note is useful in helping students explore how to make job-related decisions.

This material presents the text of Steven Taylor's feelings record, a journal of reactions to instruments and classes held in a career-management class in the fall of 1988. These data will help students gain skill in understanding and interpreting this instrument before they analyze their own data.

The balance between work and family life is the single most commonly mentioned issue among senior executives worldwide. This book provides a framework for analyzing immediate and long-term balance. Using case studies of how twelve or more executives in various industries have handled the challenge, readers are invited throughout the volume to compa...

This note presents and describes the Predisposition Test, devised by Jay Lorsch and John Morse in their book Organizations and Their Members. The test was also published in Self-Assessment and Career Development (third edition) by James Clawson et al. Students may take the test and then use the text to guide themselves through the interpretation of...

This material presents the scores and graph of Steven Taylor's responses to an instrument designed to measure leadership characteristics. The case is intended to help career-management students practice interpreting these kinds of data. See also the related PACS "Steven Taylor" cases: UVA-PACS-0027, UVA-PACS-0029, UVA-PACS-0040, UVA-PACS-0041, UVA-...

These are the implications for the kind of work he should be seeking that Steven Taylor developed out of his list of life themes constructed in the self-assessment paper (PACS-0041). See also the PACS "Steven Taylor" cases: UVA-PACS-0027, UVA-PACS-0029, UVA-PACS-0040, UVA-PACS-0041, UVA-PACS-0044, and UVA-PACS-0045.

In the C case, Savadelis takes a new job only to have the company bought out by a larger firm. Savadelis and her colleagues are fired as a part of old management, and she is out looking for a job again.

In this B case, Jewel Savadelis decides to accept the supervisor job. She specifies conditions and a deadline for replacement. Then, significant change hits Atari, and before long Savadelis is looking for a new job and wondering how to avoid the kind of experiences she had at Atari.

In this undisguised case, Jewel Savadelis has creates for herself the marketing director's position for the home video-game division at Atari, Inc. Less than 90 days into her new job, Savadelis is asked to supervise the 15 programmers who produce these games--and the revenues for the division. The three senior programmers advise Savadelis that they...

This material presents the text of Carrie's theme implications, developed from her self-assessment paper (PACS-0070). Use the Search function to view other "Carrie Baugh" cases.

This material presents the results of Carrie Baugh's responses to an instrument designed to measure leadership characteristics. Use the Search function to view other "Carrie Baugh" cases.

This material presents Carrie's personality type and will help students gain skill in understanding and interpreting their own data from the indicator instrument. Use the Search function to view other "Carrie Baugh" cases.

This case contains the complete text of the Self Assessment Paper of a second year MBA-JD joint degree student. Instructors of Career Management courses can use it to illustrate an example of a very well written, rigorous paper and/or to provide a "grading exercise" in which students read the paper and grade it as the instructor will the students'...

In late January 1984, Martha Pollock was nearing a decision about full-time employment. As a doctoral candidate in finance at a well-known East Coast business school, she had chosen college-level teaching as a career. She needed only to decide where. Pollock had received offers from Piedmont University, the University of Chesapeake, Clifton College...

A new instructor confronts putting together her first syllabus and reviews several examples she has had as a student. The task seems not so easy as one might imagine.

In late summer 1982, Ralph Dixon, dean at the State University of Bethpage (SUB), was wrestling with some of the reasons for—and the potential impact of—his failure to develop a solid working relationship between the school and Robotics, Inc., a manufacturer of industrial robots. The hoped-for camaraderie he had envisioned had not developed during...

This case presents a series of case-method faculty situations including incidents that occurred before class, during class, and after class.Topics include being a section faculty leader, preparing for class, dealing with colleagues who let out late and crunch your class time, unprepared students, dealing with requests for announcements, students co...

This material presents Steven Taylor's personality type and helps students gain skill in understanding and interpreting their own data from the indicator instrument. See also related PACS "Steven Taylor" cases: UVA-PACS-0027, UVA-PACS-0029, UVA-PACS-0040, UVA-PACS-0041, UVA-PACS-0044, UVA-PACS-0045, and UVA-PACS-0049.

Chris Warner led a team of experienced mountain climbers on an expedition to reach the summit of K2--the second-highest in the world. After failing to succeed on their first few attempts, Warner and his team brought together other teams hoping to reach the summit, and representing eight different countries, to work together for success. Their story...

This case is useful for introducing the dynamics of not-for-profit marketing and organizational structuring. It reinforces the view of marketing as the range of activities involved in continuing to meet customer needs while generating value in return irrespective of the context--consumer, business-to-business, or nonprofit. It also demonstrates how...

Erika James had been in academe for nine years and had gotten tenure as an associate professor at the Darden School when she was asked to be the Associate Dean for Diversity, a new position at the school. She discussed the offer with her colleagues and contemplated the matter thoroughly. The position would bring with it a sizeable increase in pay,...

This note summarizes mentoring theory and provides a basic framework for discussing developmental relationships in business. Forms, structures, types, and outcomes are included in the discussion.

This guide is an instructional packet for viewing the full-length feature film Brubaker, starring Robert Redford and based on a true story from a prison in Arkansas. The guide allows for stopping the film at certain spots and then answering questions in the guide. A short discussion of the students' answers and then continuing the film to see what...

A high-ranking law enforcement officer falls from grace and moves on to become a popular radio talk show host. This undisguised case brings the reader into the world of politics and power as it examines the life and career of Edward T. Norris.

This exercise is intended to help students/participants identify the specific areas in which mentors have been influential in their lives and thereby help the individual and the class (with shared data) get a better sense of what "mentors" really do and do not do. The exercise is self-administered.

This instrument is designed to measure four areas of creativity: (1) seeking several explanations, (2) taking risks, (3) tolerating ambiguity, and (4) considering the illogical.

This note invites students to assess their work teams in terms of characteristics shown in the current literature that describe highly effective teams. The references for these characteristics are shown at the end of the note.

It is very difficult to be an effective leader if you don’t know who you are and what you want. People in leadership positions are expected to clarify things for others--purpose, vision, values, strategy, and goals. This technical note describes several fundamentals of an effective organizational and work group charter including the important eleme...

The C case in this series (see also the A [UVA-OB-0591] and B [UVA-OB-0592] cases) describes the results of the changes that Bob Bellhouse, general manager of the public telephone business of New York Telephone, made in response to a series of difficult problems he faced: increasing competition, poor morale, significant financial losses, severe van...

This exercise is intended to accompany general-management simulations such as WISE and MARKSTRAT in order to help teams of students understand their group's behavior, to help individuals practice giving feedback to each other, and to heighten the stakes of the simulation. The exercise should be used in conjunction with "The Developmental Dynamics o...

This note presents an 11-element model of leadership that includes the environment, the individual, the followers, the task of the organization, and the relationships among those elements. The note also includes a list of more than 50 leadership references for further reading.

This short fictitious case provides the background for a powerful classroom experience demonstrating how people's basic assumptions shape their behavior. After the case is distributed, different individuals tell how they would respond to it. The many varied answers give rise to the discussion about how people behave so differently with such similar...

This case is useful in teaching marketing strategy as part of a marketing course. It can also be used to teach promotional strategy. Only one week into Zenith Bank of Nigeria’s initial public offering (IPO), Jim Ovia and his management team faced a new regulation that required that the capital base of banks be raised from (Nigerian naira) NGN2 bill...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to show that “common sense” is rooted in genetic and memetic legacies developed early in life and is not so common based on where those legacies were developed. To show that managers who are unable to review and adjust their common sense are not likely to be effective managers locally or globally. Design/method...

How do world-class performing individuals, teams, and companies do what they do? Would you like to know how to perform at your best on a regular basis? This book reveals the results of research involving interviews with hundreds of world-class performers in athletics, business, music, medicine and the military. It also includes the lessons learned...

How do world-class performing individuals, teams, and companies do what they do? Would you like to know how to perform at your best on a regular basis? This book reveals the results of research involving interviews with hundreds of world-class performers in athletics, business, music, medicine and the military. It also includes the lessons learned...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provoke academic and practitioner thinking by asserting a set of leadership principles first in oneself and then in others. Design/methodology/approach – The paper asserts a set of leadership principles, including a new definition of leadership, namely to manage energy. First, most managers seem to use mor...

While mayor of Izumo, Japan, Tetsundo Iwakuni, a former investment banker for Merrill Lynch, was voted the most popular mayor in Japan. Having lived abroad (in England, France, and the United States) as an investment banker, Iwakuni had left his corporate career to pursue public service. After a productive term as mayor of Izumo, he ran unsuccessfu...

This note introduces the notion of "Emotional Intelligence" as described in Daniel Goleman's book by the same name and extends that concept to include Social Quotient or Intelligence and Change Quotient or Intelligence. The general thrust is that IQ alone does not a good leader make, but that EQ, SQ, and CQ are also necessary to be an effective lea...

This note introduces and describes scenario building, the strategic-thinking approach developed by Pierre Wack and associates at Royal Dutch/Shell in the 1970s and helped catapult the company from seventh to second in its industry. The note defines the concept, outlines who should use it and how it links to strategic planning, and illustrates it wi...

This alphabetical listing of references on leadership is designed for participants in leadership courses and executive seminars who want guidance for further reading and study. Many of the references are annotated.