The garden of leaders : revolutionizing higher education / Paul Woodruff.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Woodruff, Paul, 1943-2023, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Leadership--Philosophy.

Leadership.

Leadership--Study and teaching (Higher).

Physical Description:

xx, 248 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]

Contents:

Part I Understanding Leadership

1 Alexander the Great Had Aristotle p. 3

Freedom p. 4

Nature p. 5

Society p. 6

Where Do Leaders Come From? p. 7

Can We Have Too Many Leaders? p. 8

Why a University? p. 9

The Range of Leadership Studies p. 9

Why I Write This Book p. 12

2 Leading from Freedom p. 16

The Un-Tyrant p. 16

Giving Shape to Freedom: The Lifeboat p. 18

Leading without Authority: Beyond Carrots and Sticks p. 19

Describing Leaders? p. 20

Charisma and the Dictator p. 21

The Art of Following p. 23

Learning from Women p. 24

Are Leaders an Endangered Species? p. 26

3 Messianic Leadership: Joan the Maid p. 29

Commander Without Rank p. 30

Shaw's Saint Joan p. 31

Joan's Holy Ignorance p. 33

Educating Joan? p. 34

4 Natural Leadership: Billy Budd p. 37

Nature's Best Child p. 37

Melville's Billy Budd p. 38

The Billys Among Us p. 41

Why Educate for Leadership? p. 42

Part II What Future Leaders Should Learn

5 Educating Billy p. 47

The Garden of Not Eden p. 47

Learning from the Outside World p. 49

Learning in the Classroom p. 51

Using Data p. 55

Readings for Future Leaders p. 57

6 Facing Evil, Learning Guile p. 61

This Side of Paradise p. 61

Failures of Leadership at Melos (Thucydides) p. 62

Machiavelli's Prince p. 67

The Limits of Guile (Sophocles' Philoctetes) p. 68

Facing Evil in Organizations: Defeating the Immune System p. 70

7 Facing Evil in Ourselves: Compassion and Justice p. 77

Seeing Danger p. 77

Understanding Your Own Faults in Others p. 78

Compassion p. 80

Unblocking Compassion p. 80

Justice and Self-Knowledge p. 82

Facing Your Faults in Others: Bartleby's Boss p. 83

Know Thyself p. 85

8 Facing Complexity: Leadership and Lying p. 91

The Knock on the Door p. 91

The Leadership Dilemma: Home Team Versus the World p. 94

Moral Dilemmas p. 96

Machiavelli: Breaking the Rules p. 98

Following the Rules p. 100

Living Well with Complexity p. 101

9 Facing Fear, Showing Courage p. 107

Facing Enemies p. 107

Facing Friends p. 109

Loving p. 111

Leaving p. 114

Showing Courage p. 115

10 Finding Courage p. 119

What Sort of Thing Is Courage? p. 120

Courage with Others p. 122

False Courage p. 124

False Cowardice p. 125

Faking It? p. 126

Truing Courage p. 127

Sources of Courage p. 127

Sources of Failure p. 128

11 Performing Leadership p. 132

Performing Leadership: George Washington at Newburgh p. 133

Wearing the Face of Leadership p. 134

Hiding Faults p. 135

Hypocrisy: Tartuffe and Alceste p. 136

Defining Hypocrisy p. 138

Looking as Good as You Try to Be p. 139

Hard Questions p. 141

Integrity p. 143

12 Good Ears, Strong Voices p. 149

Good Ears p. 151

Strong Voices p. 153

Technology: Beyond Words p. 158

Overcoming Differences p. 158

Character: The Finest Example p. 159

13 Becoming Magnetic p. 163

Virtues, or Beauties of the Soul p. 165

What Leaders Must Become (and Followers Too) p. 166

Character with Commitment p. 168

Making Character Shine p. 169

Character in Community p. 170

Character and Diversity p. 170

Wei Wu Wei (Silent Leadership) p. 171

Part III Changing How We Teach And Learn

14 Tyrant Teaching p. 177

The Lesson: Be Silent p. 177

Mind-Murder: The Accomplices p. 179

Mind-Murder: The Perpetrators p. 182

15 Teaching Ethical Failure p. 186

Ethical Hubris p. 188

Moral Holidays p. 188

Turning our Backs on Values: The Gorgias Syndrome p. 192

Not Believing in What We Teach p. 193

16 A Campus Revolution p. 197

What We Learn p. 197

How We Learn p. 198

First, Agree on Goals p. 200

Second, Recognize That Every Teacher Teaches Ethics p. 201

Third, Stop Teaching p. 202

Fourth, Have Students Hire Athletic Coaches p. 204

Fifth, Give Students Time to Learn Outside the Classroom p. 205

Sixth, Trust Students p. 207

And, Last, a Plea to Parents p. 207

Discovery p. 208.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780190883645

0190883642

OCLC:

1041232532