By Sandra J. Peart, Dean and E. Claiborne Robins Distinguished Professor in Leadership Studies and President of the Jepson Scholars Foundation
I 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
Read moreWho is correct, the leader or the follower? And how would we know? At a recent meeting of the History of Economics Society, my long-time friend HES President Evelyn Forget spoke about her work in public health. Evelyn is an
Read moreAthletes, trainers, and sports journalists frequently invoke a connection between athletic performance and leadership ability. Certainly, we have observed many athletes who demonstrate leadership skills at the Jepson School of Leadership Studies. Tim Bezbatchenko, who visited the University and spoke
Read moreMany leadership scholars argue that people who rely on coercion to obtain results are not leaders but rather despots. Tyrants are not leaders; by definition, leaders are moral. While this taxonomy is useful for examining truly persuasive leadership, it neglects
Read moreReunion Weekend is one of the most fun celebrations of the year at Jepson. In addition to chatting with friends, I enjoy learning more about how Jepson alumni apply their leadership skills upon graduation. In particular, the Jepson School faculty
Read moreAt a recent Marshall Center lecture, Michael Zuckert opined that late twentieth century political theory scholars began to neglect the problem of statesmanship and focused too heavily on leadership. What’s the difference? In his view, the moral qualities of leadership
Read moreIt’s commonplace for leadership advocates and scholars to include listening in their lists of “what makes a good leader.” But why would a person in a position of leadership need to listen? If a group chooses a leader because they
Read moreThere is much to be learned about leadership by studying the past. In particular, we learn about good leadership by studying what great leaders did and how they accomplished it. At the Jepson School, we have organized our curriculum with
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