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LARRY SUSSKIND: We hope you
will join our four-module dinner

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series that we have produced
in conjunction with MIT

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OpenCourseWare, with
graduate students in the MIT

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Department of Urban
Studies and Planning,

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who are eager to
explore the concept

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of facilitative leadership
in the public sector.

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We believe that leadership
in the public sector

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requires special capabilities
and a certain mental attitude,

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and we explore and discuss
lots of different versions

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of those elements over the
four modules in the series.

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This has particularly
been organized

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for graduate students in the
Department of Urban Studies

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and Planning because they
want to know about leadership

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in the public sector, and there
are very few courses at MIT,

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in any field, that talk about
leadership in the public sector.

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We think it requires special
skills and microskills.

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So we've organized four
dinner conversations.

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And you'll get to
look over our shoulder

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as I present some key
concepts and raise

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some fundamental questions
in the first module.

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And the goal of
that first module

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is to get students
to think in terms

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of their own personal
theories of practice.

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The second module will look
at applying those concepts

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in several
hypothetical situations

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in the kinds of
public sector settings

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that the participating
students who you will meet

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will be working in
when they graduate.

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The third module includes what
we call a role-play simulation,

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in which students
attempt to interact

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with several people with regard
to the ways in which development

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should happen in
a particular city.

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And in the context
and the conflict

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that they're
participating in, they

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have to use a set of
microskills, or at least try to.

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And we'll talk about
the microskills

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that are central to
facilitative leadership.

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And finally, the
fourth module really

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asks each of the 30
student participants

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to make a personal
assessment of where

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they think they stand
relative to what

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it takes to be an effective,
facilitative leader.

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You're welcome to watch one
or all four of the modules,

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and I would be delighted to hear
from anyone who's watched them.

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I would love to get a
conversation going globally

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on facilitative leadership
in the public sector.

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