One page only please Activity Context This discussion helps you develop the skills to master the following course competency: Evaluate the leader's responsibility to prepare the self for work in a competitive, complex, and diverse workplace. Activity Instructions This discussion will help you build skill in evaluating the interdependent variables that impact the value and trajectory of global leadership development programs in terms of their effectiveness in fostering deep self-awareness and growth as well as cultural intelligence and nonlinear systems thinking. Part of the evaluation will involve the sets of interdependent variables that are built into the paths that enhance skills for global leaders. Revisit PepsiCo's leadership development program, and evaluate its capacity to foster the "leading from behind" skills ("Where Will We Find Tomorrow's Leaders?," 2008, p. 126). Look specifically at variables such as cultural intelligence, nonlinear systems thinking, self-awareness, and growth. Include answers to the following questions in your post: Does the PepsiCo program challenge existing assumptions about what leaders should be in such a way as to empower a more self-directed and self-selected leadership development trajectory or process? Does the program support an outside-in or an inside-out focus (imposed or self-generated)? Does the PepsiCo program foster the capacity to support the personal growth of self and others in a nonlinear, multi-minded system? Does the program develop cultural intelligence? Response Guidelines Respond to two of your peers. In your responses to your colleagues, analyze the implications of the PepsiCo program in regard to whether the assessment of the variables presented by colleagues actually develops the self as you would wish the self to evolve as a global leader. Reference Where will we find tomorrow's leaders? (2008).  Harvard Business Review, 86 (1), 123–129. .

1. One page only please
Activity Context
This discussion helps you develop the skills to master the
following course competency:
Evaluate the leader's responsibility to prepare the self for work
in a competitive, complex, and diverse workplace.
Activity Instructions
This discussion will help you build skill in evaluating the
interdependent variables that impact the value and trajectory of
global leadership development programs in terms of their
effectiveness in fostering deep self-awareness and growth as
well as cultural intelligence and nonlinear systems thinking.
Part of the evaluation will involve the sets of interdependent
variables that are built into the paths that enhance skills for
global leaders.
Revisit PepsiCo's leadership development program, and evaluate
its capacity to foster the "leading from behind" skills ("Where
Will We Find Tomorrow's Leaders?," 2008, p. 126). Look
specifically at variables such as cultural intelligence, nonlinear
systems thinking, self-awareness, and growth. Include answers
to the following questions in your post:
Does the PepsiCo program challenge existing assumptions about
what leaders should be in such a way as to empower a more
self-directed and self-selected leadership development
trajectory or process?
Does the program support an outside-in or an inside-out focus
(imposed or self-generated)?
Does the PepsiCo program foster the capacity to support the
personal growth of self and others in a nonlinear, multi-minded
system?
Does the program develop cultural intelligence?
Response Guidelines
Respond to two of your peers. In your responses to your
colleagues, analyze the implications of the PepsiCo program in

2. regard to whether the assessment of the variables presented by
colleagues actually develops the self as you would wish the self
to evolve as a global leader.
Reference
Where will we find tomorrow's leaders? (2008).
Harvard Business Review, 86
(1), 123–129.