Case Study Analysis of The Wounded Warrior Project from a leadership point of view

Questions

1. What general principles are revealed in this case? What professional practices are revealed?
2. Critique the solutions. What alternatives are available and how would you evaluate them? What are your recommendations? Note again that you are integrating information relevant to leadership rather than a history or explanation of the organization, etc. The integration adds to your classmates' understanding of the case as well as our understanding of leadership, and the integration allows application beyond just this one particular case study. In your discussion – as in your case analysis – your critiques, alternatives and recommendations will be greatly strengthened if you think and talk in terms of numbers when possible. The business world is one interlaced with data. You may frown upon the suggestion that your analysis and recommendations be tied down numerically. In some cases, you'd be right. Practicing the skill of emphasizing the quantitative aspects of your analysis in support of your qualitative position is perhaps one of the more valuable skills you can develop in the case study method. A possible outline could be to think in terms of Explain (leadership-related concepts), Apply (those concepts to the case) and Evaluate (how do these concepts reframe the results and possibly change approaches for the better?). In other words, you need to create a fusion of outside research on leadership with the case. This approach allows you to get to synthesis and application which are higher order management-level skills you will need in the future.Discussion Posts Each should have a minimum of three sources outside of the case itself. Two of these should be information not already part of your required readings, and at least one of these two should be information related to leadership-related principles, versus additional case facts. The first case study which everyone completes, will only need two sources – one from your readings and one you find.