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ODL-680P Praxis: Leadership from a Design Perspective

2 semester credits
This course explores the notion that leadership is fundamentally an act of design -imagining and implementing the formal and informal structures that enable an organization to get work done, and in the best of organizations, to thrive. The course also explores core attitudes and skills from the designer’s toolkit - from beginner’s mind through prototyping and experimentation - and show how they can be applied to common leadership challenges such as fostering innovation, enabling collaboration, and managing complexity. Students are asked to use the tools of design throughout the course to understand opportunities, envision and prototype future states, and introduce change in the form of a design experiments that they will be able to apply in their organization contexts. This course is only offered in a face-to-face format.
Pre-requisites: ODL-671  
Delivery Method: In person
Grading Default: Letter
Learning Objective: Students will be able to:
Develop organizational structures using design thinking tools and methods.
Assess leadership behaviors and mental models such as beginner’s mind (not knowing), creative thinking, presenting partially formed ideas (prototypes), and launching experiments for feedback.
Respond to an organizational need for change using design thinking.
Test new structures in organizational settings.



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