By Sandra J. Peart, Dean and E. Claiborne Robins Distinguished Professor in Leadership Studies and President of the Jepson Scholars Foundation
Canadians aren’t exactly known for leading, despite our contributions to the arts (e.g., in music, The Band, Leonard Cohen, Celine Dion, Gordon Lightfoot, Joni Mitchell, Oscar Peterson, Tragically Hip, or Neil Young) and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Lester B. Pearson’s
Read moreI am taking this week off from the blog to do some traveling. I’ll resume posting next Thursday, July 26. Thank you for continuing to read and share posts! I am excited to continue our conversation on leadership, ethics, economics,
Read moreFor leadership scholars, two key questions are when and how to effect improvement, and whether such improvements should be imposed top-down or emerge bottom-up from ordinary people. Economists have struggled with the tension between social reform and the liberal desire
Read moreImagine the voting rule: A person will vote on a proposal that helps you, the same way she’d vote on a proposal that helps herself. What if all people in a democracy followed this rule? In a paper published in
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