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Leadership in 21st Century Organizations
  • Level Foundation
  • Duration 39 hours
  • Course by Copenhagen Business School
  • Offered by

About

Meet Jim Barton, the new CEO of Santa Monica Aerospace. Jim's job won't be easy: the company's hemorrhaging cash, struggling to regain investors' trust after an accounting scandal, and striving to transform its culture to become a more global competitor. In this course, you’ll travel with Jim as he takes on leadership challenges ranging from strategy execution, to inspiring people, to maintaining an ethical approach. Experts agree that twentieth-century leadership practices are inadequate for the stormy twenty-first-century present. This provocative course equips you with the insights you'll need to rise with the occasion of a rapidly shifting business landscape. The course is based on a book, Harder Than I Thought: Adventures of a 21st Century Leader, by Robert D. Austin, Richard L. Nolan, and Shannon O'Donnell, published by Harvard Business Review Press. Purchase of the book is optional. If you want more information about the book or wish to buy it, see https://hbr.org/product/harder-than-i-thought-adventures-of-a-twenty-first/an/10332-HBK-ENG or http://www.amazon.com/Harder-Than-Thought-Adventures-Twenty-First/dp/1422162591 After taking the course, you'll be able to: o Enact your own personal leadership approach, derived from your ongoing evaluation of how Jim Barton has handled his leadership situation, as well as from established leadership concepts and frameworks; o Avoid leadership actions that might have worked in the past, but are not suited to a newly challenging 21st century world; o Navigate treacherous new 21st century leadership challenges, such as greater reliance on specialized workers or the need to respond to external scrutiny in an increasingly transparent world (and many more); o Avoid "slippery slope" ethical failures, and think more clearly about the separation between public and private life for a 21st century leader.

Modules

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  • Adventures of a 21st Century Leader

Introduction to the Course

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  • Introduction to the Course
  • Introduction to the Dramatized Episodes

2 Readings

  • Background Info about SMA and Jim Barton
  • Jeffrey Pfeffer: What Most People Don't Know About Leadership

Introduction to You

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2 Readings

  • Invitation to a brief questionnaire
  • Link to the "Meet and Greet" Forum

The New Leader's First Day

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  • Introduction to Module 2
  • Episode 1: Jim Barton's First Day as CEO (Day 1)

Readings and Videos

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  • Hiring a new CEO
  • Reading: Making it to the top

Reflection and discussion

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  • Questions for reflection and forum discussion

Wrapping Up the Module

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  • Choosing or Becoming a New Leader

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  • Learner suggestions: Questions to ask (or try to find answers to) before accepting a leadership "opportunity"

Introduction to the Module

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  • Introduction to Module 3

The Financial Situation at SMA and a Tough Decision for Barton

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  • Episode 2: Meeting the CFO (Day 3)

2 Readings

  • A New Leader's First 100 Days
  • SMA's Income Statement

The Situation on the Front Lines

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  • Episode 3: Touring the SMA Plant (Day 4)

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  • Reports from a Boeing Factory

The Situation in Engineering

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  • Assessing the Head of Engineering

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  • Episode 4: Meeting the Head of Engineering (Day 4)

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  • To-Do list for Today's CEO

Who will you keep on your team?

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  • Reflection and discussion: Assessing Barton's team

Wrapping Up the Module

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  • Getting Started as a New Leader

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  • A Vital Task: Getting Your Team Right

Different Ideas about Disclosure of Information

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  • Introduction to Module 4
  • Episode 5: Kohler's Philosophy of Disclosure (Day 8)

New realities of greater transparency

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  • How Capitalism Can Thrive in a Transparent World
  • Dan Geer: "We are all intelligence officers now"

Social Media is the New Media...

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  • Approaches to Communication

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  • Episode 6: The Gala (Day 8)

Living and Leading in an Age of Super Transparency (Lecture)

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  • Part 1 of Living and Leading in an Era of Super Transparency
  • Part 2 of Living and Leading in an Era of Super Transparency
  • Part 3 of Living and Leading in an Era of Super Transparency

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  • Links to check out for Super Transparency Lecture

Advising Barton

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  • Reflection and discussion: Advising Barton on transparency

Wrapping Up the Module

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  • The Era of Super Transparency

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  • Learner recommendations: How to address social media challenges

Introduction to the Module

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  • Introduction to Module 5
  • Introduction to the topic of leading collaboration

Leading Collaboration at IDEO

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  • Determining the right context for collaboration

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  • Leading Collaboration at IDEO

2 Readings

  • Video of IDEO's collaboration, "The Deep Dive"
  • Reflection

Leading Collaboration at Mass Animation

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  • Diagnosis

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  • Leading Collaboration at Mass Animation

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  • Mass Animation
  • Reflection and discussion: Collaboration at IDEO and Mass Animation

Collaborative Leadership

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  • Collaborative Leadership

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  • What is "Collaborative Leadership"?

Barton Tries to Form an Alliance with Ace Jackson, a Union Leader (Who is also an Old Friend)

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  • Episode 7: Old Friends (Day 13)

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  • Introduction to Dramatized Episode #7

Advising Barton on Collaboration at SMA

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  • Reflection and discussion: Advising Barton on collaboration

Wrapping Up the Module

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  • Collaborative Leadership

Introduction to the Module

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  • Introduction to Module 6

Evaluating Current Approaches

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  • What do you think?

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  • Episode 8: The Merit Pay System (Day 24)

1 Readings

  • Introduction to Episode #8

Motivation

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  • Motivating, Inspiring, and Other Ways Leaders Get People Moving in a Particular Direction: Introduction
  • Motivating and Inspiring etc.: Economic models and their problems
  • Motivating and Inspiring etc.: What are the alternatives to incentives?

2 Readings

  • Motivation in Literature 1
  • Motivation in Literature 2

Readings and Video

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  • Readings and Video

Wrapping up the Module

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  • Motivating, Inspiring, and Leadership

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  • Reflection and discussion: Motivating people

Introduction to the Module

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  • Introduction to Module 7

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  • What does a board of directors do?

Assessing the Board of Directors

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  • Episode 9: Barton's First Board Meeting Day 31)
  • Episode 10: Sleeping with the Press (Day 31)

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  • Introduction to Episodes 9 and 10

Preparing for Board Reconfiguration

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  • Episode 11: "A Sensitive Matter" (Day 45)
  • Episode 12: "Reconfiguring the Board of Directors" (Day 45)

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  • Reflection

The Reconfiguration Process

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  • Episode 13: The Reconfiguration Process (Day 93)
  • Episode 14: Reconfiguration Accomplished (Day 135)

Readings and Video

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  • What makes for an effective board of directors?
  • Reflection and discussion: Creating a better Board of Directors

Wrapping up the Module

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  • Effective Governance

Introduction to the Module

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  • Introduction to Module 8

Leading change at Santa Monica Aerospace

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  • Assessing Barton as a Change Leader

2 Videos

  • Episode 15: Talking Shop (Day 48 and Day 118)
  • Episode 16: Design Delay (Day 68)

Reading and Video

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  • Leading change in organizations
  • Reflection and discussion: Assessing Barton's performance

Wrapping up the Module

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  • Leading Change

Introduction to the Module

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  • Introduction to Module 9

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  • How the dramatic episodes play into this module

The Dandelion Principle

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  • Episode 17: Unexpected Insight from a Neighbor (Day 36)
  • Specialisterne: From Hope to Action To Impact
  • Managing People with "Inspired Peculiarities": The Dandelion Principle
  • Anka Wittenberg, Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer, SAP SE
  • Anka Wittenberg Interview, Part 2

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  • Reflection and discussion: The Dandelion Principle

Motivating excellent performers

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  • Understanding what matters to excellent performers

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  • A Sampling of 21st Century Perspectives on Talent Management

SMA Engineers Revolt

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  • Episode 18: The Engineers Revolt (Sometime during Barton's 2nd year as CEO)

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  • Reflection

Wrapping up the Module

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  • Managing Talent

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  • Reflections and discussion: Managing talent

Introduction to the Module

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  • Introduction to Module 10
  • Episode 19: Barton in Crisis (Day 173)

Coping with Crisis

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  • Episode 20: Contemplating Resignation (Day 174)

2 Readings

  • Difficulty and development
  • Reflection and discussion: Avoiding and recovering from crisis

Taking action

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  • Episode 21: An Ultimatum (Day 174)
  • Episode 22: Negotiating with the Unions (Day 175)

2 Readings

  • The harms done by bonuses and parachutes...
  • Reflection and Discussion: Drop the parachute?

Wrapping up the Module

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  • Leading in Crisis

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  • Episode 23: A united front (Day 175)

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  • Reflection and discussion: Assessing Barton's performance

Introduction to the Module

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  • Introduction to Module 11

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  • What to expect in this module's lectures and episodes

Fostering Innovation in an aerospace company

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  • Fostering innovation

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  • Lean manufacturing mindset means continuous innovation

Innovation Dilemma as SMA

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  • What should Akita decide?

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  • Episode 24: Innovation Dilemma (At about Barton's 1 year mark)

Collaborating with clients for innovation

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  • Collaborating with clients for innovation

2 Readings

  • Emily Pilloton on participatory design
  • Reflection: Innovation strategy

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  • Fostering Innovation

2 Readings

  • VIDEO: Rethinking intelligence, education and our capacity for creativity
  • Reflection and discussion: How to encourage innovation

Introduction to Leading Execution

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  • Introduction to Module 12

Execution

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  • Understanding execution

Execution Challenges at SMA

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  • Episode 25: A Major Setback (Early in Barton's 3rd year as CEO)

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  • Reflection and discussion: Advising Barton on execution

Advice

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  • Execution

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  • Episode 26: A Percentage Game (About 2 years into Barton's time as CEO)

Introduction to the Module

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  • Introduction to Module 13

Accusations

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  • Predictions

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  • Episode 27: Firing Kohler (Day 144)

The Affair Unravels

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  • Episode 28: Played for a Fool? (Day 174)
  • Episode 29: Public life, Private life (A little more than 1 year into Barton's time as CEO)

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  • Reflection

Privacy and disclosure

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  • Verdict

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  • Episode 30: Disclosure Issue (Sometime during Barton's 2nd year as CEO)

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  • Questions about Disclosure: The case of Steve Jobs and his illness

The Board Intervenes

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  • Episode 31: Liability (Sometime during Barton's 2nd year as CEO)

Wrapping up the Module

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  • The Rights and Obligations of Leaders

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  • Reflection and discussion: Final thoughts

Introduction to the Module

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  • Introduction to Module 14

Consulting with a Peer

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  • Episode 32a: Consulting with a Peer, Part 1 (Flashback: Day 52)
  • Episode 32b: Consulting with a Peer, Part 2 (Flashback: Day 52)
  • Episode 32c: Consulting with a Peer, Part 3 (Flashback: Day 52)

4 Readings

  • Introduction to Episode 32
  • Reflection and discussion
  • Reflection and discussion
  • Reflection and discussion

Lectures on Culture, with Professor Richard Nolan

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  • Part 1: What Culture Is
  • Part 2: The Importance of Culture
  • Part 3: The Difficulty of Changing Culture

1 Readings

  • "On Corporate Culture" by Richard Nolan

Communication, Culture and Leadership

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2 Readings

  • On communication
  • On culture and leadership

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  • The Importance of Corporate Culture

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  • Reflection and discussion: Culture at SMA

Introduction to the Module

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  • Introduction to Module 15

Readings and videos

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  • Modern theories of leadership
  • Reflection and discussion: Theories for 21st Century leadership

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  • Testing Your Knowledge of Leadership Theories

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  • Reflection and discussion: The role of theory in leadership practice

Introduction to the topic

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  • Introduction to Module 16

Case: Global Financial Meltdown

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  • FILM: Global Financial Meltdown
  • Case analysis and discussion: Failures of leadership

The Financial Crisis of 2008

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  • Some explanations of the financial crisis, ranging from fun to really thorough

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  • How the Financial Crisis Unfolded

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  • Reflection and discussion: Lessons learned

Introduction to the Module

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  • Introduction to Module 17

The Financial Crisis of 2008, Continued

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  • FILM: The Warning
  • Case analysis and discussion: The Warning

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  • Avoiding the financial crisis...

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  • Reflection and discussion: What must improve?

Introduction to the Module and Case Study

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  • Introduction to Module 18

Case: Lord John Browne, British Petroleum

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  • Case readings and video
  • Case analysis and discussion: Assessment of a leader

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  • The Case of Lord Browne

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  • Reflections on the case of Lord John Browne

Introduction to the Module

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  • Introduction to Module 19

Readings

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  • General Leadership Advice from Harvard Business School
  • Four spheres of executive responsibility

Success at SMA

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  • Episode 33: Maiden Flight (Exactly 4 years into Barton's tenure as CEO)

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  • Reflection and discussion: Final Assessment, Jim Barton CEO

End of our story

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  • Episode 34: Barton Removed (Same day as maiden flight of new SMA plane)

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  • Reflection and discussion: Right outcome?

Wrapping up the Course

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  • Synthesizing Your Own Approach to Leadership

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  • End of Course Wrap-up

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  • Synthesizing YOUR framework for 21st Century leadership

Auto Summary

Embark on a transformative journey with "Leadership in 21st Century Organizations," an essential course in the Business & Management domain offered by Coursera. Guided by the experienced instructor Jim Barton, newly appointed CEO of Santa Monica Aerospace, you'll delve into real-world leadership challenges such as navigating financial crises, rebuilding investor trust, and fostering a competitive global culture. Drawing from the insightful book "Harder Than I Thought: Adventures of a 21st Century Leader" by Robert D. Austin, Richard L. Nolan, and Shannon O'Donnell, this course equips you with contemporary leadership skills crucial for today's rapidly evolving business environment. While the book is optional, it provides valuable context and can enhance your learning experience. Throughout this comprehensive 2340-minute course, you will: - Develop a personalized leadership approach based on Jim Barton’s experiences and established leadership frameworks. - Identify and avoid outdated leadership practices unsuitable for modern challenges. - Tackle new-age leadership issues, including managing specialized workers and responding to increased external scrutiny. - Enhance your ethical decision-making and distinguish between public and private life as a 21st-century leader. Available through Coursera's Starter and Professional subscription plans, this foundational-level course is perfect for aspiring leaders, managers, and professionals eager to refine their leadership skills and adapt to the demands of the 21st century. Join us and become a leader equipped to thrive in today's complex business landscape.

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