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Leadership in the Family Business (Coursera)

Offered by Tecnológico de Monterrey,

To ensure that the family business transcends and the company is sustained over time, in this course of entrepreneurship and business administration, you will have the opportunity to understand the complexity of family and business dynamics, reflect on the roles and ways of thinking of the family's leader and make a diagnosis of entrepreneurship.

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All this in order for you to know the instruments and components that involve leading and orchestrating the family business: the future vision of the business family, the development of the next generations and the formation of an effective and flexible family and business government. All the knowledge acquired in this course of business administration can be applied in the family business.
The Center for Entrepreneurial Families and EGADE Business School of Tecnologico de Monterrey is the ideal institution to develop these skills, since Tec de Monterrey is #1 university in Mexico and the 6th best in Latin America according to Times Higher Education (THE) 2016.
Professors from the Entrepreneurial Families Center are highly qualified and recognized as part of the worldwide STEP project for family entrepreneurship, moreover, EGADE Business School is number 1 school in Latin America, in its MBA, according to the ranking of America Economia.

What You Will Learn

Apply strategies, tools and models to lead and orchestrate the family business
Identify and apply main characteristics that will allow you to be a good business leader
Generate entrepreneurial talent within the organization using business leadership

Course 2 of 3 in the Leading a Family Business Specialization

Syllabus

WEEK 1: Fundamentals of the Family Business
WEEK 2: Identification of roles in the family business
WEEK 3: Forward Vision in Entrepreneurial Families
WEEK 4: Next Generation Development (NxtGen)
WEEK 5: Leadership Model (Orchestration) for Family-Company Dynamics

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