In The Garden of Leaders, philosopher Paul Woodruff advances a new view of liberal arts education that places leadership at the root of everything it does, presenting three core sets of recommendations for how the contemporary university can and should foster such leadership skills.
In The Garden of Leaders, philosopher Paul Woodruff advances a new view of liberal arts education that places leadership at the root of everything it does, presenting three core sets of recommendations for how the contemporary university can and should foster such leadership skills.
Paul Woodruff is the former Darrell K. Royal Regents Professor in Ethics at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of First Democracy, the Challenge of an Ancient Idea (OUP 2005), Reverence (OUP 2014), and The Garden of Leaders (OUP 2019).
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PART I: UNDERSTANDING LEADERSHIP Chapter 1: Alexander the Great Had Aristotle Freedom Nature Society Where Do Leaders Come From? Can We Have Too Many Leaders? Why a University? The Plan of This Book Why I Write This Book Chapter 2: Leading from Freedom The Un-Tyrant Giving Shape to Freedom: The Lifeboat Leading with Authority: Beyond Carrots and Sticks Describing Leaders? The Charismatic Dictator The Art of Following Learning from Women Leaders: An Endangered Species? Chapter 3: Messianic Leadership: Joan the Maid Joan the Maid Shaw's Saint Joan Joan's Holy Ignorance Educating Joan? Chapter 4: Natural Leadership: Billy Budd Nature's Best Child Melville's Billy Budd The Billys Among Us Why Educate for Leadership? PART II: WHAT TO LEARN Chapter 5: Educating Billy The Garden of Not Eden Learning from the Outside World Learning in the Classroom Using Data Readings for Future Leaders Chapter 6: Facing Evil: Learning Guile This Side of Paradise Failures of Leadership at Melos (Thucydides) Machiavelli's Prince The Limits of Guile (Sophocles' Philoctetes) Facing Evil in Organizations: Defeating the Immune System Chapter 7: Facing Evil in Ourselves: Justice and Compassion Seeing Danger Understanding Your Own Faults in Others Compassion Unblocking Compassion Justice and Self-Knowledge Facing Your Faults in Others: Bartleby's Boss Know Thyself Chapter 8: Facing Complexity: Leadership and Lying The Knock on the Door The Leadership Dilemma: Home Team vs. the World Moral Dilemmas Machiavelli: Breaking the Rules Following the Rules Living Well with Complexity Chapter 9: Facing Fear, Showing Courage Facing Enemies Facing Friends Listening Loving Leaving Showing Courage Chapter 10: Finding Courage What Sort of Thing is Courage? Courage with Others False Courage False Cowardice Faking It? Truing Courage Sources of Courage Sources of Failure Chapter 11: Performing Leadership Performing Leadership: George Washington at Newburgh Wearing the Face of Leadership Hiding Faults Hypocrisy: Tartuffe and Alceste Defining Hypocrisy Looking as Good as You Try to Be Hard Questions Integrity Chapter 12: Good Ears, Strong Voices Good ears Strong Voices Technology: Beyond Words Overcoming Differences Character: The Finest Example Chapter 13: Becoming Magnetic Virtues, or Beauties of the Soul What Leaders Must Become (and Followers Too) Character with Commitment Making Character Shine Character in Community Character and Diversity Wei Wu Wei (Silent Leadership) PART III: CHANGING HOW WE TEACH AND LEARN Chapter 14: Tyrant Teaching The Lesson: Be Silent Mind-Murder: The Accomplices Students Housekeepers Mind-Murder: The Perpetrators The Authority Trap The Coverage Trap Chapter 15: Teaching Ethical Failure Ethical Hubris Moral Holidays Turning our Backs on Values: The Gorgias Syndrome Not Believing in What We Teach Chapter 16: A Campus Revolution What We Learn How We Learn First, Agree on Goals Second, Every Teacher Teaches Ethics Third, Stop Teaching Fourth, Students Hire Coaches Fifth, Give Students Time Sixth, Trust Students And, Last, a Plea to Parents Discovery Chapter 17: Epilogue: Summary of Recommendations for Change Chapter 18: Supporting Materials A. Leadership and the Humanities B. Classroom Study Guides and Further Reading C. Using Teams for Leadership Experience
PART I: UNDERSTANDING LEADERSHIP Chapter 1: Alexander the Great Had Aristotle Freedom Nature Society Where Do Leaders Come From? Can We Have Too Many Leaders? Why a University? The Plan of This Book Why I Write This Book Chapter 2: Leading from Freedom The Un-Tyrant Giving Shape to Freedom: The Lifeboat Leading with Authority: Beyond Carrots and Sticks Describing Leaders? The Charismatic Dictator The Art of Following Learning from Women Leaders: An Endangered Species? Chapter 3: Messianic Leadership: Joan the Maid Joan the Maid Shaw's Saint Joan Joan's Holy Ignorance Educating Joan? Chapter 4: Natural Leadership: Billy Budd Nature's Best Child Melville's Billy Budd The Billys Among Us Why Educate for Leadership? PART II: WHAT TO LEARN Chapter 5: Educating Billy The Garden of Not Eden Learning from the Outside World Learning in the Classroom Using Data Readings for Future Leaders Chapter 6: Facing Evil: Learning Guile This Side of Paradise Failures of Leadership at Melos (Thucydides) Machiavelli's Prince The Limits of Guile (Sophocles' Philoctetes) Facing Evil in Organizations: Defeating the Immune System Chapter 7: Facing Evil in Ourselves: Justice and Compassion Seeing Danger Understanding Your Own Faults in Others Compassion Unblocking Compassion Justice and Self-Knowledge Facing Your Faults in Others: Bartleby's Boss Know Thyself Chapter 8: Facing Complexity: Leadership and Lying The Knock on the Door The Leadership Dilemma: Home Team vs. the World Moral Dilemmas Machiavelli: Breaking the Rules Following the Rules Living Well with Complexity Chapter 9: Facing Fear, Showing Courage Facing Enemies Facing Friends Listening Loving Leaving Showing Courage Chapter 10: Finding Courage What Sort of Thing is Courage? Courage with Others False Courage False Cowardice Faking It? Truing Courage Sources of Courage Sources of Failure Chapter 11: Performing Leadership Performing Leadership: George Washington at Newburgh Wearing the Face of Leadership Hiding Faults Hypocrisy: Tartuffe and Alceste Defining Hypocrisy Looking as Good as You Try to Be Hard Questions Integrity Chapter 12: Good Ears, Strong Voices Good ears Strong Voices Technology: Beyond Words Overcoming Differences Character: The Finest Example Chapter 13: Becoming Magnetic Virtues, or Beauties of the Soul What Leaders Must Become (and Followers Too) Character with Commitment Making Character Shine Character in Community Character and Diversity Wei Wu Wei (Silent Leadership) PART III: CHANGING HOW WE TEACH AND LEARN Chapter 14: Tyrant Teaching The Lesson: Be Silent Mind-Murder: The Accomplices Students Housekeepers Mind-Murder: The Perpetrators The Authority Trap The Coverage Trap Chapter 15: Teaching Ethical Failure Ethical Hubris Moral Holidays Turning our Backs on Values: The Gorgias Syndrome Not Believing in What We Teach Chapter 16: A Campus Revolution What We Learn How We Learn First, Agree on Goals Second, Every Teacher Teaches Ethics Third, Stop Teaching Fourth, Students Hire Coaches Fifth, Give Students Time Sixth, Trust Students And, Last, a Plea to Parents Discovery Chapter 17: Epilogue: Summary of Recommendations for Change Chapter 18: Supporting Materials A. Leadership and the Humanities B. Classroom Study Guides and Further Reading C. Using Teams for Leadership Experience
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