Come Learn with me ! I have enrolled in a Free Online Course - Managing Companies of the Future on Coursera offered by London Business School . If you are interested, join me in this fun learning journey for next 5 weeks :-)
The course will cover following topics .
The course will cover following topics .
Syllabus
1: Why we need to reinvent management
- Management versus Leadership: what each one is, why we need them both.
- Evidence for the failure of management
- The underlying problem: a social technology that has not evolved.
- The future of management.
- Management model: an important concept, the guiding framework for the course.
- What is your management model?
2. The 'means' of managing
- Traditional and alternative approaches to coordination.
- Traditional and alternative approaches to decision-making.
- Trying out these ideas in your company: experiments in emergence and collective wisdom.
3: The 'ends' of managing
- Traditional and alternative approaches to motivation.
- Traditional and alternative approaches to objective-setting.
- Trying out these ideas in your company: experiments in motivation and obliquity.
4. Redefining a company's management model
- Mapping your model, and how you would like it to change.
- Forces for change and those that reinforce the status quo.
- Top-driven vs Bottom-up change.
- Designing and running your own management experiment.
- A broader perspective: how management ideas gain and lose currency.
5. Making it personal: Becoming a better boss
- The challenge of managing effectively at an individual level.
- What does a good manager do really?
- Know your employees: see the world through their eyes.
- Know yourself: understand your own limitations.
- Tips and tricks for becoming a better boss.
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