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Call for Submissions: “Transitions of Power” for SAGE Business Cases
The moment when an individual or group hands power over to another is perhaps the most fraught and vulnerable event in an organization’s life, but also one that is full of potential and opportunity.
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CFP: “The Discourse of Leadership in the Greco-Roman World”
By: Mallory Monaco Caterine A panel at the 2021 Society for Classical Studies annual meeting, Chicago, IL Sponsored by the International Plutarch Society. Organized by Mallory Monaco Caterine, Tulane University, and Jeffrey Beneker, University of Wisconsin, Madison For better or worse, the vast majority of extant literature from Greco-Roman antiquity was written by individuals who…
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Reflections on Kallion’s Inaugural “Leadership and the Humanities: Study-to-Practice Workshop”
By: Mallory Monaco Caterine Kallion’s mission is “to develop better leadership across all sectors and communities through the humanities.” As the Director of Pedagogy, it’s my job to help instructors develop course materials and teaching methods that transform learners into leaders. But I have to admit, as a teacher myself, I’ve often worried that I…
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Using Shakespearean Cue Scripts to Teach Leadership and Followership Skills
By: Rhonda Knight Part 1: Background Today when students think about a Shakespeare play, they might conjure up the movie they watched instead of reading the play or an actor in a ruff (probably holding a skull) on a proscenium arch stage. If they do think about the play as a text at all, they…
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On Using Borges’ “El Muerto” to Guard against Bad Leadership
by Mac Williams (Coker College) and Norman Sandridge (Howard University). Part One: Summary In this piece we introduce a short story, “El Muerto” (1946), by Jorge Luis Borges and invite you to develop an understanding of the main character, Benjamin Otálara, in order to help you to become more aware (and wary) of this character…
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Studying the humanities seems to increase the frequency and quality of certain leadership behavior (maybe a lot)
By: Norman Sandridge I imagine most–if not all–humanities professors would like to educate a person to become someone like this. Many of us probably imagine that this is exactly the kind of person we do help create: She (or he) is high in emotional intelligence: she works to understand the perspectives of others; she is…
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Saving Higher Education (in part) by Translating Leadership Study into Leadership Practice
By: Norman Sandridge Education seems to pay. Human capital purism advances a single explanation: education pays because education teaches lots of useful job skills. A tempting story…until you stare at what schools teach, what students learn, and what adults know. Then human capital purism looks not just overstated, but Orwellian. Most of what schools teach…
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The Civic and Social Benefits of an Ancient Leadership Conversation Table: A Case Study at the Cosmos Club in Washington, DC
By: Norman Sandridge I never imagined that this would be as interesting and informative and affecting as it is–Jaedene Levy, clinical social worker and psychotherapist For the past two years, beginning in January of 2016, I have helped organize a conversation table on ancient leadership in the modern world at the Cosmos Club, a private…
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Bringing Classics to a New Audience: SAGE Ancient Leadership Business Cases (CFS)
By: Mallory Monaco Caterine In 2018, thirteen intrepid classicists ventured into uncharted territory: they wrote business cases for the “Becoming a Leader” series of Ancient Leadership case studies for the online SAGE Business Cases (SBC). Following on their successful experiment, I would like to invite any interested classicists, historians, and archaeologists to submit case proposals…