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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Leadership in 21st Century Organizations by Copenhagen Business School

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About the Course

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....

Top reviews

SE

Aug 31, 2020

This is a well-researched course with very useful examples of leadership issues in a 21st Century Organization and insights on how best to tackle those issues to achieve a beneficial outcome.

HP

Jan 3, 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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By Ronnie B

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Mar 2, 2021

Many links need an update (pages no longer exist). Otherwise learned a lot! Thanks!

By Anne B H

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Jun 14, 2021

Verty interesting training with nice external documents

By Jerome Y

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Apr 18, 2021

Really valuable lessons for me to learn the leadership.

By Patryk B

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Sep 25, 2022

Very good course though not 100% practical

By Shankara K

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May 26, 2021

Very good course for Aerospace Leadership

By Mohamed A

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Nov 30, 2020

simple, valuable course

By Claes L

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Jan 20, 2025

content is pretty good but most of the links are not working and a lot of the articles are now either behind pay walls or quite obsolete. I think Coursera needs to go through a lot of these courses and check if the content is still good. I would find other leadership courses to take before this one.

By Rory D

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Jul 29, 2024

Topics are educational, and the course arrangement is effective. My main criticism is that the majority of the links are outdated and do not work. many I could then find myself, but many remain behind paywalls.

By Margarita U

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Nov 19, 2020

Course is in general good. One big minus is not all reading is available, unless you pay for membership.

By JAYALAKSHMI K

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Sep 18, 2025

Not bad

By Ana L S

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Oct 12, 2025

Pésimo. Curso hecho hace más de diez años, con "dramatizaciones" aburridísimas de las que cuesta horrores encontrar algún aprendizajes, si es que los hay. Y el poco texto que tiene te envía a links con notas que tienen entre 15 y 20 años, ¡y la mayoría ya no están accesibles!

By Rolf A

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Dec 8, 2021

outdated maerial and many articles are placed behind a subscription. My suggestion is not to follow this course