1. Analyse the politics of an organisation with which you are familiar. If you were seeking significant strategic change in the organisation, how would you approach this?
2. Leadership may be important for strategic change, but is it essential?
3. Take an organisation with which you are familiar and show how the leader has influenced the organisation. To what extent is the leader reflecting the wishes of the members? And to what extent is the leader attempting to move the organisation into new areas that will stretch the people in the organisation? Does an organisation need to balance these two aspects of leadership? If so, how?