Prof. McCarthy leads second of two, first-ever sessions on leadership with MIT Fellows
On Friday, April 22nd, BU HHHP Director (and Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior) Jack McCarthy led a second joint session on leadership development for BU and MIT Humphrey Fellows. Whereas the first session was hosted by MIT, this one was hosted by the Questrom School of Business. This was the first time in the Questrom School’s history when a joint seminar was conducted for MIT and BU Fellows together.
In this session, entitled Leading into the Future: A Vision of Our Leadership, McCarthy guided the participants in examining the ways in which our vision of the future shapes our leadership and guides our career and life trajectories.
McCarthy explained why creativity is one of the most sought-after capacities that CEOs look for in new employees. All participants then engaged in exercises that helped to assess their occupational interests, character types, and whether they gravitated to dependent, independent, or interdependent activities.
The session concluded with a discussion of how Fellows’ past and present leadership successes, failures, and lessons served as a context for future commitments, growth, and desired change to enrich our lives and to help make our world a better place.