Berkeley - Nanyang Advanced Management Program

Leadership Accelerator Module:  This course is all about maximizing human potential – your own, your team’s, and your organizations. You will learn innovative leadership tools for establishing and managing prosperous firms while simultaneously creating a thriving career for yourself.  Leadership is about coordinating the skills, talents, and resources of individuals and groups in those combinations that best realize the organization’s opportunities. You must make things happen, and often under conditions or schedules that are not of your own choosing. Innovative leadership requires managers to be able to diagnose problems, make effective decisions, influence and motivate others, manage their personal contacts, bring out the best in their colleagues, optimize cross-functional teams, and drive organizational change.    This course prepares you to achieve these objectives. It provides fundamental tools from the behavioral and social sciences that will improve your ability to analyze organizational dynamics, innovate, and lead effectively, while at the same time maintaining your own ethical compass. Each day we will focus on a particular set of managerial skills. Our goal will be to distinguish between effective and ineffective strategies.  We will accomplish this by discussing key concepts and analyzing related cases, including exercises and simulations we will conduct in class.   By the end of the “Leadership Accelerator” module, students will be able to:          1.    Lead change and drive innovation within your company          2.    Build a high-performance strategic culture          3.    Navigate cultural shifts          4.    Become a more effective transformational leader          5.    Apply new techniques to influence & mobilize your team     Systems of Innovation Module:  This course moves beyond the “myth” of the lone genius inventor/entrepreneur to highlight the reality of what Dr. Kurt Beyer calls Systems of Innovation. Though individual inventors and entrepreneurs can be important agents of change, they are embedded in and dependent on a matrix of individuals, organizations, technologies, and institutions. Throughout the week we will also highlight themes and cases around combatting global warming and economic sustainability.   By the end of the “Technology and Innovation” module, students will be able to:          1.    Explain the innovation eco-system in Silicon Valley         2.    Explain the Venture Capital Investing Cycle         3.    Evaluate a VC deal / investment opportunities         4.    Describe success factors in new ventures         5.    Outline success factors in corporate innovation