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The Power of Being Different
Welcome! Course Layout This course is divided into three areas:
Audience: This is a web-based course that can be
used as a functional instrument of education by individual entrepreneurs, small business owners, as well as all other
interested adults who want to improve their personal leadership skills in
day-to-day operations. Purpose: This course discusses the necessity
of being different as a powerful tool toward achieving success. Coursework focuses on increasing the
insight of course participants in the importance of moving away from incrementalism
(continuous innovation that guarantees safe but small successes), and getting
used to radicalism (innovating in a complete different field: doing what
others haven't thought of yet). The course will provide the basics one can
maintain to preserve an innovative spirit and assure impulses for constant
improvement. These basics will be built upon the following self-analyzing tasks
for students: · Formulating and presenting their self-perceived strengths · Considering and presenting their mission and vision statement · Formulating their life goals · Defining their target group · Formulating ways to maintain relationships with revolution potential. · Formulating ways to detach themselves from the status quo · Formulating a declaration of personal independence · Formulating their next plan of action. The course will also emphasize on
the disadvantages of being risk-averse, no matter how comfortable the status
quo may be. This will be incorporated
in the postings and discussions when working on the formulation of ways to detach
oneself from the status quo, in the second week of the course. Issues such as
diversity, change of daily rituals, and empathic listening to the self and
others, will be conferred. The points of view of several management gurus on
revolutionary management will be analyzed. Suggestions on how to maintain
revolutionary leadership will be made. Note: It is highly recommended, although not required, that you take the lessons in order. Each lesson assumes knowledge of information covered in previous courses.
This course contains the following modules and lessons: This module discusses the problem that most large, established organizations, as well as people are facing once they gained importance: incrementalism. | |||||||||