Suggestions for a Course on Leadership

[Benjamin Rifkin]

Colleagues, this would be very helpful for many of us so please do post to the list.

With thanks,

Ben Rifkin
The College of New Jersey


On Oct 4, 2013, at 2:13 PM, Steven Brett Shaklan <ss2327 at COLUMBIA.EDU> wrote:

> 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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