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COURSE PURPOSE

This course is designed to encourage us toward personal success, leadership and greatness.

First, we need to decide what these lofty terms mean. Readings and reflection will help us define the leadership challenge.

Second, we will look for help from people who have achieved a high level of leadership. Every week, we will engage in conversations with visiting community leaders.

Overall, the course will be taught as a conversation about leadership with leaders and with each other.

OBJECTIVES

1. To discover one's aptitude and desire for leadership   
2. To learn about leadership by interviewing leaders
3. To examine the relationship between leadership and communication
4. To examine the relationship between success and leadership
5. To experience current major approaches to leadership training
6. To study leadership as a metaphor for self-development

"The hardest person you will ever have to lead is yourself." True North, p. xxxiii

TEXTS

 1. George, Bill. (2007). True North  . San Francisco: Joassey-Bass.

 2. Pink, D. H. (2005). A Whole New Mind. New York: Riverhead.

"Leadership is a word that holds a lot of hunger."

As quoted by Sharon Daloz Parks, Leadership Can Be Taught.