Rethinking Asia 6 : how leadership can be taught /
Hungsoo S. Kim, [editor].
- 212 pages ; 21 cm.
- Rethinking Asia ; 6 .
"Essays by Harward University graduates who journeyed through eighteen countries to share the principles and practices of leadership"--P. 3.
"Our world today is becoming ever more complex, colored with uncertainty, tensions, and fragmentation. Old ways of thinking and acting are insufficient to deal with the many challenges we face today. We need new habits, perspectives, and priorities to navigate our world's uncharted paths and to respond effectively to the obstacles ahead of us. Strong leaders in the future will require multiple-angle observation skills, encompassing both the bird's-eye view and the perspectives on the ground. They will also need the confidence, knowledge, and skill to take bold actions that will turn the course of our destiny upward, shifting our current, challenging realities to the hopeful aspirations of tomorrow. Leadership in this regard is about making progress, a movement toward what is better, safer, and more prosperous for all of us, even in the face of new and overwhelming difficulties. In Rethinking Asia 6: How Leadership Can Be Taught, eight CALI faculty members share their insights and practices on teaching leadership, encompassing both their ideas for positive change and their pedagogical theories on how leadership can be learned and exercised, using their personal and professional experiences as examples and cautionary tales. Showcasing frameworks taught at Harvard's various graduate schools, this book provides readers with an opportunity to think more deeply and systematically about change, power, influence, and leadership, and to increase their own capacities as leaders and agents of change"--
9781734485301
2020900301
Leadership--Asia--Case studies. Social change--Asia--Case studies.