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Leadership Lessons From The Great Books

Leadership Lessons From The Great Books

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Because understanding great literature is better than trying to read and understand (yet) another business book, Leadership Lessons From The Great Books leverages insights from the GREAT BOOKS of the Western canon to explain, dissect, and analyze leadership best practices for the post-modern leader.
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The Tragedy of King Lear by William Shakespeare w/Libby Unger
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  • Welcome & Introduction - 0:01:35
  • CEOs Building Stronger Companies with Common Touch Leadership
  • Lessons from Shakespeare's King Lear for Modern Leaders
  • Never Forget Your Roots: Lessons in Humility and Servant Leadership
  • Challenge Assumptions
  • Cultivate Servant Leadership
  • Build What Good Looks Like
  • Leadership Lessons from the Great Books
  • The Importance of Truth Tellers
  • Lessons from the Decline of Empires
  • Morality and Leadership from King Lear
  • Taking Ruthless Inventory
  • Self-Awareness Can Transform Your Leadership
  • Rhetoric, Positions, and Principles
  • Seek Truth, Act Locally
  • False Promises in Leadership Don't Deliver
  • The Power and Elite
  • Insights into an Insular Leadership Structure
  • Saying "No"
  • Staying on the Path

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams w/Dr. Michael Gerharz
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  • Welcome and Introduction - 00:11
  • Arthur Dent's Bad Day - 01:15
  • The Literary Life of Douglas Adams - 03:15
  • What Can Leaders Take From Douglas Adams and The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy? - 06:00
  • The Absurdity of Existential Thinking - 08:30
  • When They Come to Knock Down Your House - 16:00
  • The Plans Have Been in the Planning Department for Fifty Years - 26:15
  • We Live in a Time of Outrage Porn - 29:00
  • The Guide to the Galaxy as a Metaphor for Being a Grown-Up - 30:36
  • How to Get After it Without Losing Your Mind - 37:00
  • On Getting Out at the Nick of Time - 47:00
  • What Do Leaders Do With 'Luck' - 52:00
  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - 1:05:30
  • Why Hello, Mr. President - 1:07:00
  • 'Don’t Panic' - 1:20:00
  • Staying on the Path - 1:23:00

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With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa by E.B. Sledge
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  • Welcome and Introduction - 0:30
  • The Literary Life of E.B. Sledge - 01:00
  • The Gap Between The Experience of the Thing and the Thing Itself - 04:00
  • Making of a Marine - 08:00
  • Leaders Believe in Training - 12:00
  • When Was The Last Time You Paid for Training - 15:00
  • Assault into Hell - 20:00
  • War is Cruelty. You Cannot Refine It. - 35:00
  • Assault into Hell, Part Two - 42:00
  • Leaders Leverage Context - 50:00
  • Staying on the Path - 1:00:00

Music: I. Mars, the Bringer of War, USAF Heritage of America Band. https://musopen.org/music/43775-the-planets-op-32/

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The Anti-Federalist Papers by Patrick Henry, Benjamin Franklin & The Founding Generation w/Dorollo Nixon
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  • Welcome - 0:30
  • Driving A Ferarri in a Forest - 01:00
  • Back to Benjamin Franklin - 03:00
  • Leading Disagreeable Founding Fathers - 08:35
  • Don't Confuse Interests with Character - 12:54
  • A Long Breakdown of Reparations - 18:38
  • Middle Eastern Traditions and Reparations - 38:35
  • Damages Rather than Reparations - 45:37
  • There's Something Funky in the Wall - 49:00
  • I've Done Well in America without Reparations - 51:00
  • Slavery and the Constitution - 53:10
  • Taxes and Representative Government - 1:02:41
  • Production is More Important than Theory - 1:05:05
  • The Original American Gadfly, Patrick Henry - 1:07:28
  • Addressing Fundamentalist Absolutism as a Leader - 1:16:10
  • The Impossibility of Secession in the U.S. - 1:26:00
  • Staying on the Path - 1:31:00
  • BONUS AUDIO: More on Patrick Henry's Obstinance - 1:40:00

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Leadership Lessons From The Great Books - Leadership Lessons From The Great Books #46 - Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion
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01/25/23 • 47 min

Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion
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  • Welcome & Introduction - 00:33
  • Play It As It Lays as The "No Fault" Novel - 01:38
  • Relationships are Based in Gambling - 05:15
  • Navigating the Freeway Like a Riverman - 09:15
  • There's Only Nietzschean Chaos at the End of Meaning - 14:39
  • Carter and Maria Wyeth - 20:36
  • Avoiding the Real and Embracing the Pretend in Interpersonal Relationship - 23:30
  • Arguing with Avatars on the Internet - 24:15
  • Gambling with Fake Money in A Casino Mark Zuckerburg Built - 25:38
  • "What Makes Iago Evil?" - 30:00
  • On Being Cut off from Tradition and Roots - 35:12
  • The Difference Between the Imperfect 'Good' and the Evil Pretending to be Complex - 38:00
  • Staying on the Path - 39:55

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The Aura of Melancholy by Zenboy1955 (c) copyright 2022 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/Zenboy1955/64976 Ft: AT (Audio-Technica), Quantum Theor(y), Ezra Skull
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Leadership Lessons From The Great Books - Leadership Lessons From The Great Books - Shorts #18

Leadership Lessons From The Great Books - Shorts #18

Leadership Lessons From The Great Books

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03/01/22 • 7 min

Comic Book Origin Stories for Leaders

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How to Organize Competition? by Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov [Lenin]
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  • Introduction - 1:45
  • How to Organize Competition? by V. I. Lenin - 2:15
  • Lenin's Biography - 5:15
  • Lenin as the Totalitarian Ideal - 11:15
  • Anton Chekhov's Champagne: A Wayfarer's Story - 19:00
  • Dostoyevsky's "Unhappy" Warrior - 25:45
  • Yitzhak Zuckerman - 27:15
  • "If You Could Lick My Heart, It Would Poison You" - 31:00
  • Your Enemies Will Seek to Manipulate You - 34:00
  • Moral and Immoral Choice - 45:00
  • The Geniuses of Silicon Valley - 47:30
  • Klaus Schwab & The "Great Reset" - 51:15
  • Hard Lessons for Leaders from Lenin, Yitzhak, Chekhov, & Schwab - 1:08:00
  • Staying on the Path - 1:10:45

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Music: P.I. Tchaikovsky - Symphony No.4 in F minor Op.36 - II. Andantino from MuseOpen.org
How to Organize Competition? by V.I. Lenin - https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/dec/25.htm
Biography of Yitzhak Zuckerman - https://www.britannica.com/biography/Yitzhak-Zuckerman
Biography of V.I. Lenin - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Lenin
What If? II: Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been (What If Essays) - https://www.amazon.com/What-If-II-Eminent-Historians/dp/042518613X/
The Cult of Stalin the Intellectual - https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2022/03/the-cult-of-stalin-the-intellectual
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Black Indian Slave Narratives by Patrick Minges w/Tom Libby
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  • Welcome & Introduction - 00:23
  • Black Indian Slave Narratives - 01:00
  • Moses Lonian Interview - 02:25
  • Slavery is a Complicated Thing - 05:30
  • Integrations Between Native Americans and Black Americans - 07:30
  • The Trail of Tears, The Indian Removal Act, and Martin Van Buren - 08:30
  • The Fourth Turning - 17:00
  • A Leader's Decisions are Crucial Right Now in American History - 25:00
  • The Literary Life of Patrick Minges - 26:17
  • Cora Gillam Interview - 33:30
  • The Cherokee Nation and Oklahoma - 38:30
  • On Human Displacement - 45:10
  • The Layering of Claims and Blood Politics - 47:35
  • Casinos, Gambling, and Money - 56:35
  • Playing Footsie with Tyranny - 1:00:00
  • Lucinda Davis Interview - 1:07:30
  • The Libertarian Idea and Lessons from Literature for Leaders - 1:17:00
  • Lessons for Leaders from Slave Narratives - 1:20:00
  • There's No Such Thing as a "Wage Slave" - 1:25:00
  • Staying on the Path - 1:26:30

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Leadership Lessons From The Great Books #91 - Essays on Practical Politics by Theodore Roosevelt
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  • 00:00 Welcome and Introduction - Essays on Practical Politics
  • 02:00 Leaders Have a Vision of the Future
  • 05:41 Essays on Practical Politics by Theodore Roosevelt.
  • 11:46 What Kind of Guardians Do We Want to Rule Over Us?
  • 21:05 Effective Parliamentary Action Requires Hard Work, Tact, and Knowledge.
  • 26:50 Changing Political Demographics from 1883 to 2024.
  • 31:46 "The Character of Our Political Leaders."
  • 39:02 The Commodore Versus the Labor Leader Representative.
  • 43:19 Politicians Prioritize Power over Getting Things Done.
  • 52:30 Voters Unaware of Tax Burdens, Indifferent to Corruption.
  • 56:30 Breaking The Political Machine in 2024--and Beyond!
  • 01:00:35 The Power of Small Donors in American Politics.
  • 01:08:39 Why Learn About Politics and Policies? Listen!
  • 01:11:20 Staying on the Leadership Path with Essays on Practical Politics.

Music: Sergei Rachmaninoff; Suite No. 2 for two pianos, Op. 17, recorded live in the Tapestry Room of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston.

The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is pleased to share this concert under a Creative Commons Music Sharing License. For details see https://www.gardnermuseum.org.

Opening theme composed by Brian Sanyshyn of Brian Sanyshyn Music.

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