LEADING IN THE MIDDLE: ORGANIZATION AND CULTURE
2 credit hours
This course, Leading in the Middle 1: Organization and Culture, focuses on successfully navigating the organizational structure and culture of a firm. To do so, the course examines the fundamentals of what organizations do, organizational structures and design tradeoffs, running successful cross-functional teams, understanding, and succeeding within a company’s culture, gaining and using power to accomplish objectives and translating corporate strategy into concrete actions.
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