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About the Course

Meet Jim Barton, the new CEO of Santa Monica Aerospace. Jim's job won't be easy: the company's hemorrhaging cash, struggling to regain investors' trust after an accounting scandal, and striving to transform its culture to become a more global competitor. In this course, you’ll travel with Jim as he takes on leadership challenges ranging from strategy execution, to inspiring people, to maintaining an ethical approach. Experts agree that twentieth-century leadership practices are inadequate for the stormy twenty-first-century present. This provocative course equips you with the insights you'll need to rise with the occasion of a rapidly shifting business landscape. The course is based on a book, Harder Than I Thought: Adventures of a 21st Century Leader, by Robert D. Austin, Richard L. Nolan, and Shannon O'Donnell, published by Harvard Business Review Press. Purchase of the book is optional. If you want more information about the book or wish to buy it, see https://hbr.org/product/harder-than-i-thought-adventures-of-a-twenty-first/an/10332-HBK-ENG or http://www.amazon.com/Harder-Than-Thought-Adventures-Twenty-First/dp/1422162591 After taking the course, you'll be able to: o Enact your own personal leadership approach, derived from your ongoing evaluation of how Jim Barton has handled his leadership situation, as well as from established leadership concepts and frameworks; o Avoid leadership actions that might have worked in the past, but are not suited to a newly challenging 21st century world; o Navigate treacherous new 21st century leadership challenges, such as greater reliance on specialized workers or the need to respond to external scrutiny in an increasingly transparent world (and many more); o Avoid "slippery slope" ethical failures, and think more clearly about the separation between public and private life for a 21st century leader....

Top reviews

GK

Jun 4, 2022

It has been an eye opener to many possibilities of successfully leading a modern organisation. The learning process was made easy an interesting by real life examples. I really ejoyed this course.

SS

Apr 26, 2021

This course will certainly help you know each stepping stone during your leadership journey.

Know the crisis and how we can sail through it, and kind of Leadership traits.

Kudos to the team.

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By Rishi M

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May 29, 2020

Very Well Designed Course

By Raj K C

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Sep 11, 2020

excellent forum to learn

By Dr. S P

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May 24, 2020

Excellent course

By Papillonnada P

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Mar 25, 2019

très intéressant

By Luis R M B

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Jan 27, 2018

Excellent Course

By RAVI K S

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Sep 14, 2020

great learnings

By Manuel A M J

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Jun 13, 2019

great material

By Sushama N

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Apr 24, 2020

very fruitful

By Mohammad S M

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Aug 30, 2020

Good course

By Pieter N

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Feb 27, 2020

Very good!

By HP H

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Feb 7, 2017

Excellent!

By Bruno H N

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Aug 14, 2016

Fantastic!

By Hugh C W I P C

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Jun 27, 2016

thank you

By Niharika n

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Apr 16, 2016

Excellent

By Serenat M

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Nov 12, 2016

Love it!

By 武利鑫

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Dec 23, 2015

形式非常特别

By MD M A

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Aug 9, 2020

GOOD

By Mona A A

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Jun 4, 2020

good

By Thangellapalli v

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Oct 9, 2016

good

By Teemu K

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Aug 5, 2016

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By Liane D

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Jan 12, 2016

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By Joseph M

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Mar 11, 2019

I definitely recommend this course. Lots of great material, and Robert D. Austin and Shannon Hessel are excellent professors. So, why 4 stars instead of 5? There were a number of things on this course that were not functional. Broken links, links to videos that go nowhere, and links to content behind pay walls, such as the Wall St. Journal. Each time I encountered one of these, I flagged it. Let's see if it would actually get fixed.

With this class being self-paced, the discussion forums are kind of stale, although some interesting reads there. After taking this, I'm seriously interested in taking more of the Copenhagen Business school coursera courses on strategy.

By Ana M P

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Dec 26, 2021

The theory and the practical examples are great and I gained a lot of valuable knowledge. However, some links to articles or videos are broken (not available anymore) and also the WLJ articles cannot be read without a subscription. Please revise the links because this make learning very difficult and even impossible to learn by reading. Teachers explanations and details are very professional and clear. The SMA example is wonderful and helps a lot seeing the theory applied in practice. The only thing is to please check and revise the broken links to make learning smother. Thank you.

By Gregory P

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Sep 7, 2020

I generally enjoyed this course. I found it to be slow moving at the beginning - and even considered not continuing. However, once into the course the momentum was good and I found the course to be interesting and relevant, with some great examples and case studies. At some stages, the course shows itself to be old, with certain links etc which are not valid/do not work, so consider updating the material/links etc.

By Ravisara

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Nov 7, 2021

Everything was good until the last assignment - I got NO feedback on my last assignment. Plus another member submitted my own assignment back for me to review for the 3rd peer review! The whole course was so well designed and delivered but the closure has a makeshift feel to it,,,,,not impressed with the ending at all!