Suggestions for a Course on Leadership

[Steven Brett Shaklan]

Dear Seelangers,

I’m putting together a continuing education course on Leadership in
Literature for a professional audience. The goal of the course is to get
students to really dig in to a good selection of nuanced, complex fictional
situations where characters need to make decisions and exhibit leadership
behaviors and have the students debate the issues at play and the wisdom of
the characters.

I’d also like to provide some non-fiction readings (philosophy, essays
perhaps) to provide some frameworks through which the students can consider
the fictional episodes (Plato, Machiavelli, Nietzsche come immediately to
mind).

I have a short-list of works, but I am appealing to the group to see if you
have any suggestions for readings that relate to this theme. They need not
be explicitly about political, military, or business leaders (although
that’s great too), as long as they present situations where characters
demonstrate (or fail to demonstrate) key characteristics of leadership.
Particularly welcome are short stories, novellas, or longer works that can
be excerpted; it’s an adult, day-job audience and I don’t want to overwhelm
them with reading. That said, I do want to be reasonably comprehensive on
the topic.

Any suggestions would be greatly, greatly appreciated.

Thank You!

Steven Shaklan

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