Case Team Finalists in ILA Competition
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he McDonough Leadership Case Team was selected as one of the three finalists during the 2014 Undergraduate Leadership Case Competition at the International Leadership Association (ILA) Global Conference in San Diego, California. Fifteen undergraduate leadership programs from all over the country participated in the competition. The team members included Austin Burns ’16, Emily Drabeck ’17, Gene Neill ’16 and Riley Osborn ’17. They had great coaches - Alex Perry and Maribeth Saleem-Tanner. The ILA is the premier organization in the Leadership Studies field, bringing together scholars, educators and practitioners. The ILA case competition takes place annually during the association’s Global Conference. The competition, which includes an undergraduate and a graduate division, has two phases. First, all teams present a poster in front of conference attendees. Based on the poster presentation, three finalists from each division are invited to present a PowerPoint before a panel of judges. The topic for the 2014 competition focused on U.S. Immigration Policy. McDonough faculty and staff coach the team and travel with them to the competition venue. Every year, students are invited to join the team.
The McDonough Team is already practicing their case-competition skills in preparation for the 2016 ILA Leadership Case Competition, which will take place in Atlanta, Georgia.
The McDonough Model Highlighted in Leadership Book
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followers, common goal and the environmental context. In Part II, they look at the fifth component – the cultural context. This section of the book pays particular attention to different cultural perspectives on leadership – Western, Latin American, African, Buddhist, Taoist and Islamic. In Part III, they explore three possible answers to the “Leadership for What?” question – for personal leadership development, to develop others and to contribute to the Greater Good. The book is designed to be a resource for undergraduate and graduate leadership students, as well as leaders in a wide variety of professional fields.
TOWER NOTES
arietta College’s Office of Academic Affairs hosted a reception in the spring to celebrate the publication of Understanding Leadership: An Arts and Humanities Perspective (New York: Routledge, 2015), by Robert McManus, McCoy Associate Professor of Leadership and Communication, and Gama Perruci, Dean of the McDonough Center. The book is based on the Five Components of Leadership Model, which they developed through their teaching in the McDonough Leadership Program. The book is divided into three parts. In Part I, McManus and Perruci focus on the first four components of the model – leaders,
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