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The
Inn at Penn, Philadelphia, June 5,
2002
Conference Hosts
Confirmed Conference Presenters
Conference Agenda
Conference Book Prizes
Grand Prize at Conference
Conference Registration Information
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Registration
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Annual Wharton Leadership Conferences
As
companies carry out more outsourcing and joint ventures, they require new
methods of execution. The skill of delegating work downward to subordinates is
being supplemented by a talent for arranging work outward with partners. Lateral
leadership leveraging your partners' strengths instead of directing
subordinates' actions is required for achieving results when managers have
no authority to guarantee them.
As companies have delegated responsibility
downward, they've also been increasingly demanding that managers be able to lead
their own bosses. If their superior lacks data, they need to ensure that the boss
receives what's needed; if the boss is missing the boat, they need to help get
him or her aboard before it's too late.
Outward
and upward leadership is about taking charge when managers are not formally in
charge. It assures that advice arrives from and information flows to all points
on the corporate compass, not just from the top down. But for these
distinct forms of leadership to work well, they'll require inward
self-assurance and personal self-confidence.
Leadership,
then, should be viewed as a four-pronged capacity -- downward, outward, upward,
and inward. But building that capacity is a challenge, and the sixth annual
Wharton Leadership Conference is
devoted to exchanging ideas on how leadership for all directions and a
supporting culture can best be developed.
CONFERENCE
HOSTS
Janice
Bellace, Professor Legal Studies and Management and former Deputy Dean,
Wharton School; founding President and Vice-Chair of the Board of Trustees, Singapore Management University
Peter
Cappelli, Professor of Management and Director of the Center for Human
Resources, Wharton School
Stewart Friedman,
Practice Professor of Management, Wharton School, and former Director,
Leadership Development Center, Ford Motor Company
Monica
McGrath, Adjunct Professor of Management and Director of the Wharton
Leadership Program
Michael
Useem, Professor of Management and Director of the Center for Leadership
and Change Management, Wharton School
CONFIRMED
CONFERENCE PRESENTERS
 Warren
Bennis, University Professor and Distinguished Professor of Business
Administration, and Founding Chairman of the Leadership Institute, University of
Southern California; author or co-author of Leaders, On Becoming a
Leader, Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration, and
Co-Leaders: The Power of Great Partnerships; former president of the
University of Cincinnati.
 Marcus
Buckingham, Senior Vice President at the Gallup
Organization, and co-author of First, Break All the Rules: What the World's
Greatest Managers Do Differently and Now, Discover Your Strengths.
 Deborah
M. Fretz, President and Chief
Executive Officer, Sunoco
Logistics Partners
Benjamin Levy: Professional magician and author of Remember Every Name
Every Time: Corporate America's Memory Master Reveals His Secrets; has
worked with many political leaders and companies.
 Rodrigo
Jordan: Founding
director of Vertical S.A., a Chilean organization devoted to using mountains as
classroom for groups from company managers to school children; summited Mt.
Everest by the difficult east face in 1992, and led a Chilean team in 1996 in a
successful ascent of K2; author of Everest: The Challenge of a Dream, K2:
The Ultimate Challenge, and articles in the Wall Street Journal and
elsewhere; his ascent of K2 was featured in 2001 in the National Geographic
Television series on the Quest for K2.
 Lt.
Col. Scott Snook, Academy Professor at
the United States Military Academy, director of West Point's Center for
Leadership and Organizations Research, and author of Friendly Fire: The
Accidental Shootdown of U.S. Black Hawks over Northern Iraq.
 Sally
W. Stetson, President, Forum of
Executive Women, and principal, Salveson Stetson Group, an executive
search firm; has recruited and consulted with pharmaceuticals, manufacturers,
hospitals, banks, professional services, colleges and non-profit institutions
for two decades.
 Arthur
Sulzberger, Jr., publisher of The New York Times and chairman of
The New York Times Company, which includes The New York Times, The
Boston Globe and sixteen other newspapers, eight television stations, two
radio stations, and more than forty Web sites.
 Nancy
Straus Sundheim, Senior Vice President, General Counsel, and Secretary, Unisys Corporation; previously practiced law with the
Philadelphia law firm of Dechert Price & Rhoads, where she specialized in
mergers and acquisitions and securities law, and with the Boston law firm of
Ropes & Gray and the Washington, D.C. law firm of Arnold & Porter.
 Chris
Warner: Founder and
president of Earth Treks (a climbing and mountain guiding company), and
founder of the Shared Summits Program, a
web-based educational partnership between Earth Treks expeditions and 20,000
school children; guided over 75 international mountaineering expeditions,
including two trips on the North Ridge of Mount Everest; first American to solo
an 8000-meter peak; frequent television appearances including CNBC and Bloomberg
Business News.
CONFERENCE AGENDA
7:30 to 8:00
a.m. Continental Breakfast and
Welcome: Peter
Cappelli, Director, Wharton Center for Human Resources, and Michael
Useem, Director, Wharton Center for Leadership and Change Management.
8:00
9:30 a.m. Building a Strengths-Based Organization, Marcus
Buckingham,
senior vice president, the Gallup organization and co-author of First,
Break All the Rules and Now, Discover Your Strengths.
9:30
10:30 The Seduction of
Command and Control, Lt. Col Scott Snook, Academy Professor, U.S. Military Academy and author of Friendly
Fire: The Accidental Shootdown of U.S. Black Hawks over Northern Iraq.
10:30
10:45 Break
10:45
11:30 The
Magic of Memory, Benjamin Levy, professional magician and
author of Remember Every Name Every Time: Corporate America's Memory Master
Reveals His Secrets.
11:30 1:00
p.m. Lunch Speaker:
Leadership in an
Age of Vulnerability, Warren Bennis,
Distinguished
Professor of Business Administration, University of Southern California and
author or co-author of Leaders,
On Becoming a Leader, Organizing Genius, and Co-Leaders.
1:00 3:00
Reaching Your Summit, Rodrigo
Jordan,
founder of Vertical S.A.(Chile), ascender of Mt. Everest, and author of K2:
The Ultimate Challenge and Chris Warner, founder of
Earth Treks and the Shared Summits Program, and ascender of Mt. Everest.
3:00 3:15
Break
3:15
4:15 Women Leading in All
Directions, a panel discussion with Sally W. Stetson, president
of the Forum for Executive Women; Nancy Straus Sundheim, senior vice
president, Unisys Corporation; and Deborah M. Fretz, President
and Chief Executive Officer, Sunoco
Logistics Partners
4:15 5:15
Reinventing The Times:
Building on History and Overcoming Tradition,
Arthur
Sulzberger, Jr., publisher of The New York Times and chairman of The
New York Times Company
5:15
p.m. Cocktail Reception
CONFERENCE
BOOK PRIZES
A
drawing will be held at the conference for multiple copies of the latest books
by our conference speakers and hosts, including those of
Warren Bennis, The Future of
Leadership: Today's Top Leadership Thinkers Speak to Tomorrow's Leaders (2001)
Marcus Buckingham,
Now, Discover Your Strengths (2001)
Peter
Cappelli, The New Deal at Work: Managing the Market-Driven Workforce
(1999)
Stewart
Friedman, Work and Families -- Allies or Enemies? (2000)
Rodrigo Jordan,
K2:
The Ultimate Challenge (1998)
Benjamin Levy, Remember Every Name
Every Time: Corporate America's Memory Master Reveals His Secrets (2002)
Scott Snook,
Friendly Fire: The
Accidental Shootdown of U.S. Black Hawks over Northern Iraq (2000)
Michael
Useem, Leading Up: How to Lead Your Boss So You Both Win (2001)
 
GRAND PRIZE AT CONFERENCE
 A
grand prize
drawing will held at the conclusion of the conference for free attendance
at a multi-day learning program offered by Wharton Executive Education. Program
options include The
Leadership Journey, The
CFO: Becoming a Strategic Partner, Critical
Thinking: Real-World, Real-Time Decisions, Global
Corporate Finance, Leading
Organizational Change, and Wharton
Leadership Ventures.
Wharton Executive Education programs can be viewed by clicking here.
CONFERENCE
REGISTRATION
To
register online for the conference, click here;
to reserve a hotel room, click here;
and to receive updates on the conference, submit your e-mail address to useem@wharton.upenn.edu.
Discounts
are available to companies associated with the Center for Human Resources and
the Center for Leadership and Change; students and alumni of the Wharton
Executive MBA Program; and members of the Advisory Board of Wharton Executive
Education.
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