Systems Leadership

Catalog description

There has never been a more challenging or interesting time to be a business leader or founder. Everyday people must confront economic volatility, uncertain government policies, shifting global complexities, shrinking liquidity, rapid technology cycles, and challenging workforce dynamics. Importantly, this is confronting leaders who have never seen inflation, high interest rates or extended bad business cycles. This course explores how leaders at the world's leading companies are driving frame-breaking transformational change inside of organizations. In addition, in the emerging post-pandemic world, the issues facing leaders across multiple industries require insights on how to drive technological, cultural and ecosystem changes under unprecedented duress. The macro trends that are currently dominating the business world include the need for leaders to understand the best attributes of companies that have both digital and physical roots, as well as how to balance these macro issues in times of great uncertainty. Leaders need to make choices on where to deploy resources, those parts of the technical stack where they will seek to own technology (and where they will partner), and how they can influence, organize, and shape their ecosystems.