Michael Roberto, renowned management expert, to deliver Heath Lecture at Stevens, Oct. 21
Topic is learning to be an effective problem-finder and -solver
HOBOKEN, N.J. — World-renowned management expert Dr. Michael Roberto will speak at Stevens Institute of Technology this month on the topic of leadership.
Roberto is the author of the recent book, “Know What You Don’t Know: How Great Leaders Prevent Problems before they Happen.” In his lecture, Roberto will reveal tips from the book and discuss how leaders and aspiring leaders can be more effective by doing one thing –becoming better problem solvers.
The event will be held at the Babbio Center for Technology Management on the Stevens campus, October 21, 2009, beginning at 5:00 p.m. Audience members will have a chance to ask Roberto questions following the hour-long talk.
The book describes the seven skill sets that you need to become a world class “problem-finder.”
It describes how successful leaders get past dangerous information filtering; watch how people behave, not just listen to what they say; pick meaningful patterns out of raw data; connect the dots among disparate bits of information; encourage smarter risk-taking and “useful failures”; build a culture that welcomes challenges to conventional wisdom; and draw crucial lessons from an organization’s “game film.”
Roberto is the Trustee Professor of Management at Bryant University in Smithfield, R.I. He joined the tenured faculty at Bryant after serving for six years on the faculty at Harvard Business School. He also has been a Visiting Associate Professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business.
The event is open to the public. Please contact Sharen.Glennon@stevens.edu for more information, or call 201-216-5381.About Stevens Institute of Technology
Founded in 1870, Stevens Institute of Technology is one of the leading technological universities in the world dedicated to learning and research. Through its broad-based curricula, nurturing of creative inventiveness, and cross disciplinary research, the Institute is at the forefront of global challenges in engineering, science, and technology management. Partnerships and collaboration between, and among, business, industry, government and other universities contribute to the enriched environment of the Institute. A new model for technology commercialization in academe, known as Technogenesis®, involves external partners in launching business enterprises to create broad opportunities and shared value.
Stevens offers baccalaureates, master’s and doctoral degrees in engineering, science, computer science and management, in addition to a baccalaureate degree in the humanities and liberal arts, and in business and technology. The university has a total enrollment of 2,150 undergraduate and 3,500 graduate students, with about 250 full-time faculty. Stevens’ graduate programs have attracted international participation from China, India, Southeast Asia, Europe and Latin America. Additional information may be obtained from its web page at www.stevens.edu.
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