This is an archived course. A more recent version may be available at ocw.mit.edu.

Readings

SES # TOPICS READINGS
1 Introduction; distributed leadership framework  
2 Leadership lunch: Robert Liebeck  
3 Thompson Island Outward Bound (2 day overnight trip); Distributed leadership framework (cont.)

Augustine, Norman R. "Twelve Qualities of a Leader." Based on a presentation at The Colloquium on Leadership, Creativity and Values. The Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, DC, April 29, 1999.

Buy at Amazon Bennis, Warren, and Burt Nanus. "Mistaking Charge." Chapter 1 in Leaders: The Strategies for Taking Charge. 2nd ed. Harper Business, 2007. ISBN: 9780060559540

"Bennis' Leadership Qualities." ChangingMinds.org.
4 Discussion of readings; Apollo 13

Buy at Amazon Axelrod, Alan. "Queen of the Bottom Line." In Elizabeth I, CEO. Prentice Hall Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780735203570.

Shenk, Joshua Wolf. "The True Lincoln." TIME Magazine, July 2005, 39-44.

Buy at Amazon Drucker, Peter F. "The Discipline of Innovation." Chapter 7 in Leader to Leader. Edited by Frances Hesselbein and Paul M. Cohen. Jossey-Bass, 1999. ISBN: 9780787947262.

Buy at Amazon Zaleznik, Abraham. "Managers and Leaders: Are They Different?" In Designing and Managing Your Career. Edited by Harry Levinson. Harvard Business Review Press, 1988. ISBN: 9780875841809.

Buy at Amazon Bennis, Warren, and Burt Nanus. "Managers vs. Leaders." Chapter 2 in Leaders: The Strategies for Taking Charge. 2nd ed. Harper Business, 2007. ISBN: 9780060559540.

Buy at Amazon Gardner, Howard E. Multiple Intelligences. Basic Books, 1993. ISBN: 9780465018222.

Buy at Amazon Lowney, Chris. Heroic Leadership. Loyola Press, 2003. ISBN: 9780829418163
5 Leadership lunch: Brit d'Arbeloff  
6 Creativity and improvisation; discussion of assignments 3 and 4

Evans, Harold. "The Spark of Genius." US News, October 11, 2004.

"Tesla: Life and Legacy." Public Broadcasting Service, pbs.org.

"Edison's Miracle of Light." Public Broadcasting Service, pbs.org

Buy at Amazon Bennis, Warren, and Burt Nanus. "Taking Charge: Leadership and Empowerment." Chapter 7 in Leaders: The Strategies for Taking Charge. 2nd ed. Harper Business, 2007. ISBN: 9780060559540
7 Leadership lunch: Sharon Gillett  
8 Student oral presentations  

Additional Readings

Ancona, Deborah. "Leadership in an Age of Uncertainty." MIT Leadership Center. Cambridge, MA, 2005. (This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.PDF)

Kaminski, Michelle. "Teaching Leadership to Union Women: The Use of Stories." Labor Studies Journal 28 (2003): 67-77.

Buy at Amazon Halpern, Belle Linda, and Kathy Lubar. "What Great Leaders Have." In Masters of Change. Edited by William Boast with Benjamin Martin. Executive Excellence Press, 1997. ISBN: 9781890009076.

Hill, Frederick W. "Leadership: A Personal Journey." Executive Speeches, February/March 2004, 5-9.

DiCicco, Joel M. "The Development of Leaders in Ancient China, Rome, and Persia." Public Administration Quarterly, Spring 2003, 6-40.

Alimo-Metcalfe, Beverly, and Robert J. Alban-Metcalfe. "The Development of a New Transformational Leadership Questionnaire." Journal of Occupational and Organization Psychology 74 (2001): 1-27.

Dingle, Derek T., and Alan Hughes. "A Time for Bold Leadership." Black Enterprises, February 2002, 76-82.

Kellerman, Barbara, and Scott W. Webster. "The Recent Literature on Public Leadership." The Leadership Quarterly 12 (2001): 485-514.

Ready, Douglas A. "How Storytelling Builds Next Generation Leaders." MIT Sloan Management Review, Summer 2002, 63-69.

House, Robert J., and Ram N. Aditya. "The Social Scientific Study of Leadership: Quo Vadis." Journal of Management 23, no. 3 (1997): 409-473.

Neureiter, Norman P. "Engineering and American Policy." The Bridge 34, no. 2 (2004).

Drath, Wilfred H. "Leading Together: Complex Challenges Require a New Approach." Leadership in Action 23, no. 1 (2003): 3-7.

Flood, Chena, Cynthia Wolf Johnson, Charlynn Ross, and Jennifer Wilder. "Bridging the Gaap: 16 Years of Academic Leadership Development for Women." NASPA Journal About Women in Higher Education 3, no. 1 (2010): 163-181.

The recommended articles below are from:

"Inside the Mind of the Leader." Harvard Business Review: Special Issue, January 2004.

Stewart, Thomas. "The Leader's Secret Self." Pp. 10.
Kellerman, Barbara. "Leadership: Warts and All." Pp. 40-45.
Bennis, Warren G. "The Seven Ages of the Leader." Pp. 46-53.
Goleman, Daniel. "What Makes a Leader." Pp. 82-91.
Prentice, W.C.H. "Understanding Leadership." Pp. 102-109.
"Executive Summaries." Pp. 111-114.
"Leading by Feel." Pp. 27-37.

(Some articles may have been published in previous issues.)

The recommended articles below are from:

Issues in Science and Technology, Summer 2009.

Obama, Barack. "What Science Can Do." Chapter 1, 23-46.
Smil, Vaclav. "U.S. Energy Policy." Chapter 2, 47-60.
Branscomb, Lewis. "A Focused Approach to Society's Grand Challenges." Chapter 3, 61-76.
Alberts, Bruce. "Restoring Science to Science Education." Chapter 4, 77-80.
Eldredge, Niles. "To Teach Science, Tell Stories." Chapter 5, 81-84.