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Introduction

Managing for excellence is a cap stone course with a triple attention to the action strategies that make people in organizations thrive and grow, what creates extraordinary performances and how to develop more sustainable business. The course has a summary nature and is meant to equip students with a research-based repertoire of knowledge, skills and practical tools as a change leader, whether in a formal role or not. The course draws from positive organizational scholarship, practice-based approaches to achieving excellence in leadership and change, as well as a growing literature on sustainable business.

Course content

• Building quality and energy in interactions: High quality connections and compassion at work, the practices of generative resistance, giving behavior and being a contribution.
• Experiential learning and generative AI: Unleashing hidden potential through action experiments with deliberate play and prepping.
• Meaning making: Activating drama, the reflective best-self portrait, callings at work, from prosocial to pro-environmental motivation.
• Sustainable business: Building sustainability engagement, the sustainable business case simulator and materiality analysis.
• Positive organizational change: The theory and tools of appreciative inquiry, acting on the progress principle to build self-efficacy and mastery climate; fostering change agency.