Honing One's Leadership Skills - Lectures From Harvard
Stephanie West Allen has a posting on her blog idealawg, that contains a link to whole suite of lectures (25 of them) given by Tal D. Ben-Shahar in his spring semester course at Harvard on the psychology of leadership. It is a quite remarkable series, but then Ben-Shahar did teach two of the three most popular courses at Harvard College that semester! The course is described on the Harvard site as follows:
"How can leaders - in the business sector, politics, or education - create an environment that facilitates growth? Topics include transformational leadership, personal identity, change, ethics, peak experience and peak performance, motivation, and systems thinking."
One of the characteristics of the leaders that really 'ring the bell,' is a thirst for knowledge and self-betterment that never dries up. There can be few areas where the need for top-rate skills is greater. I commend watching and listening to these lectures to anybody's personal self-education programme.
To link directly to the lectures, click here. (Ain't technology wonderful?)