Leading in Highly Uncertain and Rapidly Changing Environments

Catalog description

This course thoroughly examines the issue of change in modern, learning organizations. In an era where technology and other social and cultural shifts have created uniquely fluid environments, this course examines the leadership capacity to anticipate, plan for, and in some cases respond to the inevitable arc of change. Change requires uniquely specific leadership behaviors around system organization and orientation. This course examines the thought processes required and the preferred structures and approaches regarding this ever present and all-important strategic organizational reference point. The topic of change is evaluated from both the theoretical and application-based perspectives.