Free-ride management: managing a flexible organization

Management of balancing between order and chaos +
+ Self-renewing organization + Managing continuous change.

Course program

What is free-ride management

• Learning from snowboard riders and fans of SUV’s: free ride means speed and stability where there are no roads.
• Learning management from Darwin: The principles of survival in a hostile environment.
• And from Bin Laden: Organization, which is everywhere and nowhere.

Formula of FREERIDE MANAGEMENT: Management of balancing between order and chaos + self-renewing organization + managing continuous change.

Balancing order and chaos

1. Management of living systems
2. How to take advantage of the chaos
3. Technique of balancing chaos and structure
4. Management of company through paradoxes

Development of self-renewing organization

1. Strategy, born within the company

• Work with the strategies at all levels of the company: who participates, how, and what each of them brings to the discussion of strategies.
• Simple rules for effective discussion of strategies. Experience of successful and unsuccessful companies in Silicon Valley.

2. Instead of goals ... Simple rules

• How to create Simple Rules? How many do you need? How do you use them in management? What is not a Simple Rule?
• Corporate culture of personalities. Development of professional culture.

3. Self-organized structures

• Organizations without borders. How does it work?
• Structure, which changes in accordance with market dynamics.
• Structure, which changes following strategies.
• Other structures, working for rapidly adapting companies.

4. Energizing a relaxed team

• Manager as an investor in human capital.
• Asset-management for employees, executives and board members.
• Learning from professional service companies.
• Tom Peters' principles of energizing the company of “Up and Out”

Management of continuous changes

1. Evolution and revolution in the life of a company, and how to survive them. Tasks at each stage.
2. Technique of continuous change.

Program Director

Dr. Julia Ivy

Julia Ivy (Y.V.Ivanova), Ph.D., Professor of School of Management(USA), a member of the research team at Lancaster University(England) and founder of LOCAL TO GLOBAL LLC (USA), specializing in bilingual and distance vocational education and consulting for practicing managers.

From 1993 to 2003, Julia Ivy practiced in the CIS countries and has been known as a top expert in the field of management. Since 2003, Julia Ivy lives in the U.S. and travels around the world with her programs and research.In the west she is more commonly known as Julia Ivy. Her consulting is often requested by Chamber of Commerce, Economic Development Council, and Small Business Administration Council. Her studies and master classes have been presented at the Academy of Management, Global Business Conference and many other conferences. Her articles are published in top journals in the world.

Training format

Training in the Action Management program is conducted in Russian language. MBA and corporate clients choose the language of instruction in the program by themselves.

Program is conducted in two different formats and the format is indicated in the schedule.

Day workshop format - 2.5 days of work in the classroom for each course. Seminars are held in Kiev and Moscow.

All work with course materials and discussions of case studies is held within the classroom.

Distance format. This format is convenient for corporate learning for the management team in a fast growing company.

• Each course consists of four on-line lectures (webinars), which are held every week in the evening/morning.
• Implementation of the strategies discussed in class continues on the forum and using chat technology.
• Implementation of mini-projects.
• On-line presentation of business literature in the field of fast-growing companies, flexible organizations, and how to create a company's DNA.

Request

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