Course Length | 8 modules, 32 hours+, 1 module per week is recommended |
Course Cost | $4,995 |
Course Instructor | Professor Mike Grandinetti, BS, MBA |
Course Grading Scale | PASS/FAIL |
Course Work | Discussions, Quizzes, Readings and/or Writing Short Essays, Projects and Activities |
About Mike Grandinetti
Mike has been continuously active in the fields of innovation, entrepreneurship, human-centric design and digital marketing since earning his Bachelor of Science in Engineering degree. He went on to earn his MBA degree with distinction at Yale. He began his career in Silicon Valley and has spent his entire career in the world’s leading innovation clusters of Silicon Valley / San Francisco, Boston / Cambridge, Austin, TX and Tel Aviv, Israel. He’s a successful serial tech entrepreneur, multi-award-winning professor, innovation consultant, angel investor, board member, hackathon & design sprint leader, popular keynote speaker, podcast author, and in-demand startup mentor.”
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Course Syllabus
Module 1: The Radically Changing Nature of Leadership
“Old School Leadership” from 1900 to the Launch of the world wide web
- The new normal: The pre – pandemic world was already chaotic
- Leading during global pandemic
Module 2: Leader’s Toolkit 1
- Human Motivation
- Purpose, Autonomy, Master
- Transformative Cultures & Organizational Approaches to Optimize Motivation
- Deliberately Developmental Cultures
- Micro-enterprises
- Holocracies
Module 3: Leader’s Toolkit 2
- Power & Influence
- Nelson Mandela’s Masterful Use of Power & Influence
- Case Studies in Effective & Ineffective Use of Power & Influence
- Leadership lessons from professional sports
Module 4: Leader’s Toolkit 3
- Digital Transformation
- Innovation Theatre vs. Genuine Innovation
- The 3 Horizons of Growth
- Human-centered design
- Open Innovation & Open-Source Economics
- Lean / Agile methodologies
- Amazon Takes Over from GE as leading CEO Incubator
- “Digitally Savvy” Boards of Directors
Module 5: The Socially Conscious Leader in the ESG Era
The Business Roundtable’s New Charter of the Corporation
- Certified B Corporations
- Social Ventures
Module 6: Personal Leadership
- Confident or Over-confident
- Don’t Be Blinded by your own expertise
- The increasing demand for “T-shaped” workers
- Empowering individual contributors to step up as leaders
- Review 12 Angry Men & others who stepped up as leaders
- Bill & Melinda Gates, Jeff Skoll, etc.
- Malala, Greta Thunberg, Turana Burke, etc.
Module 7: Leadership for the Future of Work
- Leadership & Motivation for an increasingly remote & freelance workforce
- Working alongside technology: algorithms, bots, robots, etc.
- Building resilience an adaptability in times of uncertainty, disruption, adversity
- Cutting through the “crisis fog” – proven practices to level up focus, clarity, stamina
Module 8 — TBD