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The art and adventure of leadership : understanding failure, resilience, and success
\"The path to success represents a conundrum: Ultimate success often requires failures along the way, and fear of failure often blocks ultimate success. But the wise leader needs to know when he or she cannot afford to fail. The Art and Adventure of Leadership examines why some great leaders were able to recover from spectacular failure. And it explores and assesses which leadership skills are nonnegotiable for any leader who seeks to avoid lasting failure and to attain ultimate success.\" -- Provided by publisher.
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The art and adventure of leadership
\"In recent years many management gurus have been speaking glibly of the virtues of failure. Silicon Valley has adopted mantras such as Fail better,\" \"fail fast\" and other variations.This book suggests that good leaders must go deeper. The path to success represents a conundrum: Ultimate success often requires failures along the way, and fear of failure often blocks ultimate success. But the wise leader needs to know when he or she cannot afford to fail.It examines why some great leaders were able to recover from spectacular failure--mainly George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Winston Churchill and Harry Truman, as well as some more contemporary figures. And it explores and assesses which leadership skills are nonnegotiable for any leader who seeks to avoid lasting failure and to attain ultimate success.This manuscript was a collaboration by the late Dr. Warren G. Bennis and his longtime colleague, former USC President Steven B. Sample. It is a fully developed manuscript of about 29,000 words. It was begun in February 2014 and was polished to its current state in the weeks following Dr. Bennis' passing\"--
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The Art and Adventure of Leadership
ForewordBill GeorgePrefaceSteven B. SampleAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: An Etymology of the F-WordChapter 1 Redefining Success and FailureChapter 2 Why Success Requires the Right Kind of Appetite for the FightChapter 3 Accepting and Exercising Moral Responsibility: The Ability to Accept-and Manage-Responsibility for Difficult Ethical ChoicesChapter 4 Avoiding Groupthink, Mass Media, and the Failures of the HerdChapter 5 A Timeless Reading List that Leads to Timely SuccessChapter 6 When Failure Is Baked into the SystemChapter 7 Bankruptcy and Failure as the Great American Pastime: A Land of Sec
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The Pursuit of Wisdom: A Modest, but Essential, Prescription for the Future
Although higher education leaders are occupied with important issues such as accessibility, globalization, funding, and innovation, another issue – moral education – must be addressed if we are to equip students to navigate the future. One need not adhere to a particular religious orthodoxy or propound any sectarian dogma to engage students in the examination of values. The rare context and crucible of heterogeneous and heterodox postsecondary institutions provide an environment in which students, guided by their professors, can learn to wrestle with thorny questions, to maintain their intellectual and moral autonomy, and to take responsibility for their actions.
Journal Article
SAY `NO' TO OUR SCHOOLS' STATUS QUO
A school voucher initiative has been rejected by the voters of California, and many supporters of the status quo in the nation's public schools are breathing a sigh of relief. The current educational system has been protected, at least for the moment. While serving on panels in New York and California that examined the state of our public elementary and secondary schools, I was struck by the terrible ineffectiveness of so many of these schools. It now seems clear that, on average, our public education is the worst of any industrialized nation. Indeed, students in some Third World nations receive a better education than many American youngsters. Our suburban public schools are not necessarily models of excellence, either. As powerful educational monopolies, they often suffer from entrenched mediocrity, reflected in test scores and other indications that these schools do not compare well with their counterparts in other countries. Even students from the most affluent school districts often do not receive the quality of education they need and deserve.
Newspaper Article
SAY `NO' TO OUR SCHOOLS' STATUS QUO
A school voucher initiative has been rejected by the voters of California, and many supporters of the status quo in the nation's public schools are breathing a sigh of relief. The current educational system has been protected, at least for the moment. While serving on panels in New York and California that examined the state of our public elementary and secondary schools, I was struck by the terrible ineffectiveness of so many of these schools. It now seems clear that, on average, our public education is the worst of any industrialized nation. Indeed, students in some Third World nations receive a better education than many American youngsters. Our suburban public schools are not necessarily models of excellence, either. As powerful educational monopolies, they often suffer from entrenched mediocrity, reflected in test scores and other indications that these schools do not compare well with their counterparts in other countries. Even students from the most affluent school districts often do not receive the quality of education they need and deserve.
Newspaper Article
USC and the Rebuilding of Los Angeles
Although the University of Southern California's (USC) main campus lies between the downtown financial district and South-Central Los Angeles, USC escaped with no vandalism and only one student injured. The effects of the Los Angeles riots on USC and its relationship with the community are discussed.
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