Defying Disruption: How to Become an Un-Disruptable Leader is a collaboration between Parsons School of Design at The New School and Mark Lipton LLC.
In the Defying Disruption: How to Become an Un-Disruptable Leader specialization, you will be empowered to navigate disruptive environments through innovation and strategic business practices. You will gain a comprehensive understanding of disruption's evolution over time and the driving forces behind it. Explore innovative approaches to diagnose, defend against, and leverage disruption as a catalyst for growth and success. You will also uncover key traits of un-disruptable leaders and cultivate your own adaptive leadership skills. Lastly, you will examine the power of organizational and personal vision stories in building a sustainable strategy against disruption. Completing this specialization will enable you to become a more resilient and adaptable leader capable of navigating disruption successfully.
Defying Disruption: How to Become an Un-Disruptable Leader
Parsons School of Design via Coursera Specialization
Overview
Syllabus
Course 1: Demystifying Disruption: Essential Insights for Leaders
- Offered by Parsons School of Design, The New School. In this course, you will find deep insights into what disruption is, what drives it, ... Enroll for free.
Course 2: Navigating Disruption: Becoming an Un-Disruptable Leader
- Offered by Parsons School of Design, The New School. This course helps you cultivate the five key leadership traits that will make you an ... Enroll for free.
Course 3: Beyond Disruption: Why Your Vision Is Essential
- Offered by Parsons School of Design, The New School. In this course, you explore the important role vision plays in developing ... Enroll for free.
- Offered by Parsons School of Design, The New School. In this course, you will find deep insights into what disruption is, what drives it, ... Enroll for free.
Course 2: Navigating Disruption: Becoming an Un-Disruptable Leader
- Offered by Parsons School of Design, The New School. This course helps you cultivate the five key leadership traits that will make you an ... Enroll for free.
Course 3: Beyond Disruption: Why Your Vision Is Essential
- Offered by Parsons School of Design, The New School. In this course, you explore the important role vision plays in developing ... Enroll for free.
Courses
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In this course, you explore the important role vision plays in developing organizational strategy, maintaining competitive resilience, and in helping organizations survive and thrive through disruption. You will learn about and analyze the three main components of a vision: raison d'être, strategic differentiation, and values. First, you will understand what a vision framework is, examine its four organizational elements, and discover how to use it to integrate a vision throughout an organization. Then, you discover the value of having a personal vision through real-life leader stories. To meet the challenges of disruption, leaders need to be un-disruptable and have a vision, and align that vision with that of their organization. In this course, you will learn how to utilize the innovative and strategic practices successful leaders embrace in order to steer your own organization towards success.
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This course helps you cultivate the five key leadership traits that will make you an un-disruptable leader: ambidexterity, beginner's mindset, disruptive jujitsu, end-user ethnography, and emotional fortitude. You will engage in exercises to develop these traits and learn how to apply them to lead your organization successfully through modern-day disruption. To keep up with the current pace of disruption, leaders must develop a strategic mindset, balance optimization and innovation, and navigate the challenges and opportunities created by disruption. Through this course, you will have the tools to become an innovative, resilient leader in an ever-changing landscape.
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In this course, you will find deep insights into what disruption is, what drives it, and how it affects organizations. An overview of the history and ever-evolving nature of disruption over time is provided to illustrate its power and scope. You will gain fundamental knowledge applicable across industries, such as the distinction between innovation and disruption and the importance of balancing sustaining and disruptive innovations. Learn how to diagnose disruption and examine its internal and external drivers as you explore practical strategies for leaders to both defend against disruption and leverage it to your benefit. You will discover how embracing an un-disruptable mindset enables leaders to navigate disruption effectively. By the end of this course, you will understand ways to drive your organization to success by preventing creative stagnation or chaos, while leveraging disruption through innovative and strategic business practices.
Taught by
Mark Lipton
