Welcome to the Leading Technical Organization Specialization produced by the Engineering Management Program at the University of Colorado Boulder. I'm glad you're here. What did you think about the video I had you watch just before this? The one where the gentleman said, what is leadership? It is that which you do when no one is watching. Leadership is very personal, and your leadership style is as unique as you are with your combination of skills, strengths, and personality type. We will continue to explore your leadership style in a scenario-based learning environment. But first, let's look at a quote that I think is embodies, I would say, the idea of course Number 2. Indra Nooyi, the former PepsiCo CEO, said I wouldn't ask anybody to do something I wouldn't do myself. To me, that says a bit about her integrity, a bit about her authenticity, about how she sees other people, how she sees her team, how she respects them, their skills, their experiences, and that she would never ask them to do something she wouldn't do herself. Take that quote with you. Throughout this course, we will have some sections talking about authenticity and integrity in leadership. Remember that I think it's one key tool that you can keep with yourself as you move up in the leadership ranks, especially as you begin to do more and more delegating. This idea of making sure that you are asking people to do something that is high integrity and high-quality. It is a reflection on you. Just to remind you of the leadership progression courses that we have offered on Coursera. The first is leading oneself with Ron Duren, the second leading others with Daniel Moore and then the third leading technical organizations with myself, Kathryn Tobey. In a later video clip, I will introduce myself. Think of this course really as applied leadership, applied to leading technical organizations. In this particular class, you're going to learn skills that you can employ now, that you can observe now in the leadership that you follow, and that you can evolve these skills over time as situations present themselves. This course is for individuals that aspire to leadership, to leading programs, to leading portfolios of programs and projects. We will explore many leadership topics through readings, writings, watching videos, writing scenario posts, and discussions. In Course 2, we are going to concentrate on accountability and employee engagement. Accountability from the standpoint of your own personal accountability, how you embody team accountability, and how you create a culture of accountability in an organization. Employee engagement, think of as, how do you engage the workforce that looks up to you? What is it that they need from you to be able to give their discretionary effort. With that, I want you to watch the next video. It's called the sixth paradox of leadership. Now, this video really does bring to the surface how complex leadership is today and how necessary it is to have very good leaders. It's not easy. The gentlemen at PricewaterhouseCoopers does this explanation quite well, I think. I hope you enjoy it, and I will see you back after that.