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Interview with a Horse Whisperer

Clawson, James G.,...

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Interview with a Horse Whisperer

Clawson, James G.; Ryan, Kathryn

OB-1018 | Published December 14, 2010 Technical Note

Collection: Darden School of Business

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This note contains a verbatim transcript between an MBA student and a practicing manager and can be used to identify the speaker's values, attitude, beliefs, and expectations (VABEs). Seeing, examining, understanding, and evaluating one's own VABEs is a precursor to becoming an effective leader of others.

Encourage students to explore events in their own lives that have shaped their values and assumptions about management, teamwork, and the direction of their lives. Learn techniques of self-awareness Create a learning situation in which students will have an opportunity to reflect upon their own existing, past, or future significant decisions. Challenge people to think about the critical assumptions that support and surround such decisions.