“The IMPM taught me that to learn how to lead you must have courage to act; to experiment with your beliefs. Leadership requires an openness to make mistakes and to accept mistakes from others. I now allow more time for observation and reflection before judging and acting.”
Paulo Motta
IMPM 2003
Operations Director SA Rolling
Alcan Alluminio do Brasil
Brazil
THE ACTION MINDSET
Module 5
Managing Change & Continuity: The Action Mindset
Fundacao Getulio Vargas / EBAPE
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
The final module, which looks at managing continuity and change, is held at Brazil's top business school, Brazilian School of Public & Business Administration (FGV / EBAPE) in Rio de Janeiro.
Managers are expected to develop a richer understanding of what is change (although we talk about it all the time), what is not change, what is continuity and what determines good action.
This module explores what is emotion and how it affects “rational” decision-making at the individual level by asking questions such as: How does emotion affect the odds of successful strategic renewal and innovation? How can one create emotionally intelligent organizations without necessarily requiring emotionally intelligent individuals in influential positions?
Participants also look at business model competition; practical applications of strategy implementation with combined rational and emotional dimensions; a model for developing a global innovation strategy framework; and Blue Ocean strategy.
A significant part of the module is dedicated to presentations of the Impact Ventures – the program-long projects where participants work together to lead change initiatives back in their companies over 10 months of the program. At EBAPE, they present the conclusions and analyze what they have learned.