| Off-Site Location | Online | External | 25100 | 25 | 16 | MBA Students only. This course will be delivered over the following Saturday Online Sessions: 29 January, 5 February, 12 February, 19 February, 26 February, 5 March 9am-2pm (ACST). Topic: Failing Forward: Leadership in Challenging Times With Professor Mike Shaner, Saint Louis University, USA. Course Overview: All organisations, groups and individuals will fail at some point during their history. Maybe not total failure, but a deviation from goals. This course will look at the causes (individual, group, organisational) and discuss strategies to combat these deviations. The business environment has become more and more turbulent, uncertain, and with major disruptions. Product life cycles are shorter and businesses have to re-invent and learn from themselves. Pressure on individuals and organisations to NOT fail is enormous, but how can we grow when the fear of failure inhibits our efforts to try? This course will create an awareness of the reasons why organisations, groups, and individuals experience downturns and what might be done to identify and avoid potential failure. The symptoms and, more particularly, the causes of failure will be examined in depth, as well as the techniques that may be used to identify the onset of difficulties as early as possible. Successful recovery strategies will more likely be achieved if the problems are recognised early. In this course students will cover the following topics: Individual Failure - Fear of Failure, Fear of Success, Vulnerability, Shame, Blame, Cognitive Biases Group Failure - Tight Coupling, Psychological Safety, Constructive Dissent Organisational Failure - System Complexity, Weak Signals, Self-Defending Organisation, Normalization of Deviance Recovery - Jumping the Curve, Strategic Inflection Points, The Second Cycle. |
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