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Navigating Disruption: Becoming an Un-Disruptable Leader (Coursera)

Offered by Parsons School of Design, The New School,

This course helps you cultivate leadership skills that will make you un-disruptable. You discover the five key traits of un-disruptable leaders—ambidexterity, a beginner’s mindset, disruptive jujitsu, end-user ethnography, and emotional fortitude—and analyze the way they apply these traits to lead their organizations through disruption.. You engage in exercises to develop the traits and receive encouragement to regularly practice and apply them. To keep up with the current pace of disruption, leaders must balance the demands of optimization and innovation, and the traits you develop in this course will help you manage these demands and other challenges stemming from disruption.

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Course 2 of 3 in the Defying Disruption: How to Become an Un-Disruptable Leader Specialization.

What You Will Learn

Evaluate why leaders need to be un-disruptable.
Explore the 5 practices of an un-disruptable leader in a professional environment.
Create an Un-Disruptable Leadership Action Plan to guide your professional development.

Syllabus

WEEK1: In Search of the Un-Disruptable Leader
WEEK 2: Practice 2: The Beginner's Mind-Set
WEEK 3: Practice 4: End-User Ethnography
WEEK 4: Completing the Un-Disruptable Puzzle

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