Improve Your Management and Leadership Skills Quickly
Instead of learning from the school of hard knocks, let experienced startup founders guide you to being a successful first-time CEO. In addition to explaining the most critical responsibilities of a startup CEO, Matt Blumberg, Founder/CEO of Return Path and author of Startup CEO and Clint Korver, successful serial entrepreneur, venture capitalist and Stanford University adjunct professor, will provide you with an operating system that will help increase the chances of your startup’s success, while saving you time and reducing stress.
You’ll learn how systems thinking can help you build and scale a successful company. Many first-time CEOs focus on problem solving. However, encountering a problem, solving it and moving on to the next one is inherently limited and frustrating. Building a scalable business requires designing and implementing systems that prevent problems or at least make them easier to solve.
You’ll also learn from fellow online students—startup CEOs from around the world— helping you to build your network and gain a broader perspective on your company’s strengths and weaknesses.
A How-To Guide for the First-Time CEO
This online course focuses on the areas of responsibility unique to the CEO such as communicating the vision, building the company’s human capital, driving execution, building and leading a board of directors and managing yourself.
You’ll learn about a variety of systems--from those that help you manage your own time and priorities to those that drive the most important activities in your company.
Fundamentally this class describes how to create an operating system for managing yourself and your company.
By the end of this course, you will:
Understand what a successful Startup CEO really does
Understand the power of story telling and how to communicate your vision to all stakeholders
Know how to recruit, hire and retain the very best talent
Know how to marshal financial resources and use them wisely through disciplined execution
Understand how to build and lead a board of directors
Know how to manage your time and your priorities so you can effectively manage others
Working in virtual teams, this online course allows you to learn by doing. You’ll gain leadership skills you can apply to your own startup or work situation in real-time. Designed by entrepreneurs for new and aspiring entrepreneurs, the seven-week curriculum will both improve your interpersonal skills and help you create an operating system for managing yourself and your company.
Our team-based exercises allow for substantial interaction with other students and the opportunity to build a network of fellow startup CEOs from around the world.
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