01_NewsAndUpdates

=News and Updates=

We can post here the plans and how they are going. Always post your own news and updates on top of the previous one (reverse order link in a blog) so when we visit the page we have less scrolling to do. :)

Updates from WebEx call Feb 4, 2011
By Sunday Feb 6, 2011, all group members will send Julia their written sections and references in APA format by 2:00 pm MST. (Post references to "References" section on Wiki page). (Post individual sections to our names in the Wiki).

Julia: Epic introduction and conclusion! Put everything together, Idea for title: ** I Googled It - **// How the Right Leadership Turned a Company’s Name into a Verb // Ilona: Structural changes to Google in relation to the CEO change. Tanis: Focus on issues around Google's growth. Linda and Valeria: Working together on transformational leadership & Google background

**News for Feb 2, 2011**
I've posted a rough draft of the "Google and Transformational Leadership" section. It's on a new page called 10_Google and Transformational Leadership. It might have made more sense to post it in 03_TheAssignmentPage, but given that it's drafty, that felt a bit presumptuous. Please have a look when you have a chance. I'm hoping that this will fit in with what others are working on. Contributions to the section are welcome, of course. It's a bit weak on examples of how Google fits the transformational leadership model, as my research has been more on transformational leadership theory and less on Google. I know some of you have been doing more reading on Google, so let me know if there's some obvious stuff that could be added in - or go ahead and add it in, if you'd like. Comments welcome. The more back and forth we can have before we talk on Friday, the better, I'm guessing.

[note from Val] - Thank you LInda - I have added and modified a few of my own notes and embedded them into your initial draft - you can see all the changes I rpoposed i the history tab. I keep purple as my text colour to easily identify the added considerations. A true collaboration endeavour!

Awesome additions/edits, Valeria. Glad to see my 500 words fleshed out to almost 1000! I have more notes from looking at leadership theory that could still be woven in - I'll keep an eye on how things develop and see where/if those might be squeezed in. I have a feeling our problem might turn out to be keeping the paper down to 3000 words once we start adding in Google background and a discussion on Google's path forward.

News for January 31, 2011
Here the following updates from our busy work this past week:


 * 1) **Meeting to talk about the final piecing together of our paper** - **Friday, February 4, 6:30 p.m.** (Mountain Time) - WebEx (need phone line and internet connection - Tanis will get us all on board for this new tool!
 * 2) Everyone putting together personal notes in wikispace - feel free to post stuff on your own page.
 * 3) Outline approved (see discussion forum in wiki and email in blackboard)
 * 4) Roles divided

News for January 23, 2011

 * 1) Based on the Skype conference this morning we decided to set up the wiki page (Valeria
 * 2) We will visit and get familiar with the page and agree on the initial calendar of tasks.
 * 3) By Wednesday, January 26 - we will try to have a complete title/question for our paper in the Paper Page on this wiki.
 * 4) By Sunday, January 30 we will have a final draft of our outline and work individually on our sections
 * 5) The suggestion at the Skype conference was to begin reading Pages 397-398 - Leadership for Change and begin reading/finding literature about Leadership. We can all share our findings as links and actual documents through our own wiki pages. Reading more about Leadership will help us get a sense on how to focus our question for the paper.
 * 6) To date topics and questions around the paper include: using Google as our company; considering the impact of leadership in the company in relations to the mission statement and mantra of the company and the fact that the founders are still running the company.