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Study-to-Practice Faculty Development Workshop: Register Now!
Hosted by Kallion Leadership and Coker University (Hartsville, SC) Dates: January 4-15, 2021 Registration: $50, sign up here! What is the Study-to-Practice Faculty Development Workshop? The S2P Workshop helps college-level educators in the humanities reimagine themselves as leadership trainers. We seek to move beyond studying what leadership is to making our students better leadership practitioners…
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A Story of Leadership Development as Told by Students
By: Norman Sandridge Introduction In a previous post I explained how I spent the past semester (Fall 2020) treating the humanities educator (namely, me) as a leadership trainer. I was the protagonist of the story, doing whatever I could to inspire a new generation of talented students to take their leadership training more seriously. For…
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The Humanities Educator’s Brief Guide to Seeing Yourself as a Leadership Trainer
By: Norman Sandridge Introduction Halleluyah! It’s the beginning of December and classes are over. It’s been an exhausting, confusing, and prison-like experience teaching completely online for the first time in my career. Despite these frustrations, I would say that it has also been one of the most rewarding semesters of my career. I chalk this…
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Call for Proposals: “The Stakes and Sacrifices of Leadership”
Ancient Leadership Series for SAGE Business Cases Since 2018, SAGE Business Cases (SBC) has been inviting authors to contribute to its Ancient Leadership series. This year’s series will explore “The Stakes and Sacrifices of Leadership” through history, mythology, philosophy, and material culture. Case proposals are due by January 31, 2021. Proposed cases may address issues related…
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Middle Management and Olympian Irrationality, Part 1: The Parvipotent King
By: John Esposito This is a post about in-betweens: leadership ‘upwards’ and ‘downwards’; the middle-management rung of the organizational hierarchy; being intelligent and mortal at the same time. The ‘eureka’ described in this post concerns ancient gods, but it derives from my non-academic work experience. So this post doesn’t draw a modern leadership lesson from…
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Good Trouble: A Eulogy and Leadership Sketch of the Late Rep. John Lewis
By: Paul B. Ellis There are not enough words to convey all that John Lewis meant to this country and the world. If you have not read his three graphic novels, March (Parts 1-3) and see the recent documentary John Lewis: Good Trouble, they are essential as a starting point. There are two moments of…
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Over A Decade Later, A Student of Ancient Leadership Reflects on the Relevance of His Training Today
By: James Austin Allen I have been thinking about my Leadership in the Ancient World class a lot lately. I came to the class—or, rather, the class came to me—in the fall semester of 2009. I had just transferred to Howard after spending a year attending Borough of Manhattan Community College; before BMCC, I had…
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Trust, Sympathy, and Joy: Thoughts on Music and Leadership
By: Richard Giarusso On more occasions than I care to admit, I’ve wandered down the YouTube “rabbit hole” watching archival footage of great conductors of the past century. Years ago, I came across some rehearsal footage of the Austrian conductor, Carlos Kleiber (1930-2004), leading the Stuttgart Radio Orchestra in music of Carl Maria von Weber.…
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The Humanities as Leadership Training
By: Norman Sandridge “Kallion believes those who teach the Humanities should be recognized as leadership trainers and those who perform leadership roles should harness the power of continual reflection within a life of action.”–from the Kallion Vision Statement Abstract In this short essay I’m going to sketch one way of tackling the question, how is…