Gianpiero Petriglieri
Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour
Why this course
This core leadership course "invites students to uncover the values implicit in the theories and tools they are in the process of acquiring—and consider the impact of those theories and tools on lives and societies”
Professor Petriglieri taps the liberal arts and social sciences and invites students to critically evaluate the highly functional or idolized vision of leadership among the “globally mobile”
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Learning outcomes:
At the end of the course, students will be able to:
Acquire conceptual knowledge about leadership as a functional and cultural enterprise
Reflect upon the sources and influence of the values that suffuse everyday life
Practice recognizing, and working with, value multiplicity and the tension it provokes
Suspend the relentless focus on functional performance that often impedes acknowledging, engaging with, and learning from, cultural performances—our own and others’
Examine what values shape our experiences and trajectories at INSEAD and beyond
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Biography
Gianpiero Petriglieri is Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour at INSEAD. His award-winning research and teaching focus on what it means, and what it takes, to become a leader. He is particularly interested in the development of leadership in the age of “nomadic professionalism,” in which people have deep personal bonds to work but loose affiliations to institutions. Gianpiero’ research has appeared in leading academic journals such as Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Annals, Academy of Management Learning & Education, Organization Theory and Organization Studies. He also writes regularly for the Harvard Business Review and is listed among the 50 most influential management thinkers in the world by Thinkers50. At INSEAD, he directs the Management Acceleration Programme, the school’s flagship executive programme for emerging leaders, and chairs the Initiative for Learning Innovation and Teaching Excellence. He also directs customized leadership development workshops for multinationals in a variety of industries.