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.
Status: Crisis Management
Crisis Management
Status: Human Capital
Human Capital
Course·39 hours
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SJ
5.0·Reviewed Mar 5, 2022
Very Good course. Learnt Innovation, leading team, corporate culture, managing crisis and so many things which will help in my daily profeesional life. Thank you corsera and CBS
GC
5.0·Reviewed Mar 7, 2026
Interesting overview of the leadership theories of the 21st Century. The use of the dramatization make learning more intuitive and there is a lot of material for deep diving in different topics.
AK
5.0·Reviewed Aug 7, 2020
exceelent course by all means. so much was there in the course that it has changed my perspective of looking at leadership challenges in the coming century, full marks to the course designer.
AK
5.0·Reviewed Nov 2, 2022
I am under Manpal sponsorship where we are paid to do this course and we get certificate as part of our learning for free but now it is telling me to purchase it after completion
GK
5.0·Reviewed 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.
GP
5.0·Reviewed Apr 24, 2016
A very comprehensive Leadership development program. Course content is very relevant, detailed and updated. I personally had good learning from the program. Excellent instructors.
MS
5.0·Reviewed Jun 2, 2020
This is a wonderful course. I learned practical aspects of leadership in 21st century organizations. Only some issues are some links are not workable. These minor things shall be fixed.
SS
5.0·Reviewed 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.
WS
5.0·Reviewed Jun 13, 2021
Extremely insightfull and practical course, Touches on a number of aspects of leadership in today's world. I found the reading material very useful, sometimes voluminous but extremely relevant.
IB
5.0·Reviewed Sep 12, 2019
This is a must-take course for anyone considering a position of leadership - even if you think you know everything, you WILL find yourself taking notes and reflecting a lot after each module.
S
5.0·Reviewed Oct 7, 2023
The material is good. The way it was imparted to students is good. The assignment is excellent. In my view, the assignments should be increased and the quizs are to be decreased
OK
5.0·Reviewed Apr 15, 2021
very interesting and informative, kudos to the Lecturer and university for taking time out to prepare for this course. This is the first Coursera course I took and am sure to take more classes.
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Mark Richardson
2.0
·Reviewed Apr 30, 2020
I do not recommend this course, it is five years old, many of the links no longer work and many more link to sites that require payments. I flagged all such occasions and reached out to instructors but they never got back to me. Some materials are good, but on balance I believe there are better courses on the same subject. Course needs to be updated!
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Dr Alan George Miller
5.0
·Reviewed Jan 6, 2016
I would describe this course as very polished. A great deal of thought (and I am sure practice in front of the cameras) has went into production. It is a clear useful guide through the governance and leadership minefield. The messages are clear and well thought out. I have completed a great number of online courses (65 to date) and this course has to be on top of the list of genuinely useful ones. Everything comes across effortlessly only because of the work behind the scenes that has went into thinking how to do so.
Please produce more courses like this, please...
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Darryl Holmes
5.0
·Reviewed Jul 27, 2017
Really enjoyed the course, the fictional story of Jim Barton is entertaining and educational. The course material is all really well thought out and the whole experience will stay with me for the rest of my career. Thank you to everyone that has contributed to this and I highly recommend it to anyone looking at becoming a better manager.
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ONYIA UGOCHI KEYINA
5.0
·Reviewed Apr 16, 2021
very interesting and informative, kudos to the Lecturer and university for taking time out to prepare for this course. This is the first Coursera course I took and am sure to take more classes.
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Christopher A. Phekni
5.0
·Reviewed Oct 16, 2016
This course is extremely good, I had never seen the world from a leadership stand point and it gives me more than I was expecting in terms of training and leadership skills. Last but not least, a final thanks to all the Copenhagen Business School who have contributed in this course and have shared their unique experience so that I go out into the world and lead by example.
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Antony Arokiadass Baskaran
5.0
·Reviewed Jan 15, 2017
This is an amazing course and serves its purpose in giving a bird's eye view of all the pertinent issues in a practical manner using the analogy of Jim Barton and SMA. The non SMA case studies, talks and illustrations did well drive home salient aspects of leadership. Thank you very much for his well designed course.
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Wale Sulaimon
5.0
·Reviewed Jun 13, 2021
Extremely insightfull and practical course,
Touches on a number of aspects of leadership in today's world. I found the reading material very useful, sometimes voluminous but extremely relevant.
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Ian Brodie
5.0
·Reviewed Sep 13, 2019
This is a must-take course for anyone considering a position of leadership - even if you think you know everything, you WILL find yourself taking notes and reflecting a lot after each module.
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Kamal Joshi
5.0
·Reviewed May 17, 2020
3rd course completed on Coursera. Two out of three, in May-2020 itself. I'm continuously enjoying & learning at this platform. The Course - "Leadership in 21st Century organizations" is a well designed, having interesting real life experiences of Leadership. The course taught me the personal qualities of Leadership. This will take me ahead in my professional life.
Thanks a lot to Coursera & to my organization for giving me an opportunity to learn & learn continuously.
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urvois
5.0
·Reviewed Nov 23, 2015
I have been following Coursera for few years now and I have to say this is one of the best course I have taken, the acting, the level of materials to study , the professeurs and the way you want to learn about Jim Barton decision is really a breakthrough of how home stud
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Aliaksandra
5.0
·Reviewed Nov 6, 2015
It is an excellent course. Mix of reading, watching, reflection on material makes learning easy and efficient. And Jim Barton's story is a good case-study for analyses of all aspects of leadership. Many thanks for instructors, it's a great job!
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Mohd Anwar Jamal Faiz
5.0
·Reviewed Aug 23, 2018
It's an awesome learning experience with a great content. The methodology of using dramatized episodes is remarkable. I'm fully satisfied with the course and find myself much more armed with the theories and practical leadership challenges.
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Olga Luksa
5.0
·Reviewed Jan 29, 2019
very good case studies from real life. You can learn not only about leadership behavior, successes and failures, but also get to know about such global disasters as Financial Meltdown.
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Gordhan Punjabi
5.0
·Reviewed Apr 24, 2016
A very comprehensive Leadership development program. Course content is very relevant, detailed and updated. I personally had good learning from the program. Excellent instructors.
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Andreas Schmid
4.0
·Reviewed May 29, 2017
Some links were dead end and some asked for subscribing at a homepage (what I personally disliked a little bit) but all over, a great course.
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Sachin Srivastava
5.0
·Reviewed 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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Hemant Patil
5.0
·Reviewed Jan 4, 2019
Excellent course that provokes you to relate learning and experience. I have just submitted my assignment/reviewed first peer and this reflected how powerful the course design is. #Kudos
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Mohammad Selim
5.0
·Reviewed Jun 3, 2020
This is a wonderful course. I learned practical aspects of leadership in 21st century organizations. Only some issues are some links are not workable. These minor things shall be fixed.
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Michael Nurse
5.0
·Reviewed May 1, 2017
I thought this course was amazing. I basically went through something similar to Jim and wish I could have done this course BEFORE that happened. Really amazing.
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Pedro Chiappini
4.0
·Reviewed Apr 30, 2020
O curso exige que tenhamos acesso a diversos conteúdos pagos do Wall street journal, e não deixa opções para contato sobre isso, sem o qual não conseguimos seguir. O curso é bom, mas Fica bem ruim assim porque perde-se grande parte do conteúdo dos textos. Gostaria de seguir, mas assim é inviável. mais um caso de material inacessível em https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taJOV-YCieI&feature=youtu.be. outro: https://blog.innocentive.com/2013/11/21/8-differences-between-traditional-and-collaborative-leaders/
