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Material Specific to Spring 2008
Syllabus, MGMT 290 (fall
2007)
Syllabus, MAEL 650
(fall 2007)
Syllabus, MGMT 490 (fall
2007) Fun: Vice
Presidents' Trivia Quiz
Introduction
to Leadership: A sequence of slides that gives an overview of what we'll be
covering (good if you need a refresher from earlier management classes)
Additional Readings (access from CBU)
Presentations
General
Colin Powell on Leadership
Louis
XIV -- Power, Impression Management and Leadership Traits
Franklin
Roosevelt -- Charismatic Leadership
Reading About
Leadership
 Denotes articles
requiring CBU password or on-campus access
"The
New Leadership Development," Training and Development
Machiavelli, The
Prince (Courtesy of Columbia University)
"Some
like it haute: Leadership lessons from France's great chefs," Organizational
Dynamics
"Why
CEOs Fail," Fortune (also see "Six
Habits of Highly Ineffective CEOs")
Leadership Books
| Book |
Review |
| Blanchard, K. H.
(1983). The One Minute Manager. New York: Berkley
Books. |
 |
"Who needs to read the One
Minute Manager? It really can do no harm to anyone and has
good advice for everyone. Anyone can benefit from the three
steps or secrets as the authors describe." |
-- Keith Pitman, MGMT 352, Fall 2002 |
|
Cox, D., & Hoover, J. (2002).
Leadership
When the Heat's On. New York: McGraw-Hill. |
| "Grade, C-" |
| "standard leadership ideas" |
| "could have done a better job at finding more interesting and
reasonable stories [examples] than he did" |
| "tended to jump around" |
-- Laurie
Benedict, XMBA 2002 |
| Johnson, S., &
Blanchard, K. H. (1998). Who Moved My Cheese? An Amazing
Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life. |
| "Who
Moved My Cheese
is an entertaining and uplifting story" |
| "The
book is short and concise and the lessons are very easy to
understand." |
| " |
| "This
book is a good motivational tool for an individual, while at the
same time it could be used as a key to unlock the success of a large
business." |
| "Reading
this book at different stages of ones life would teach you new and
different lessons, each time that you read it." |
--Craig
Hill, MGMT 352, Fall 2002 |
Leadership Links
Biography
Collections
| American
Rhetoric -- text and audio from the famous speeches of our time |
| Arlington
National Cemetery biographies -- if you suspect someone may be buried
there, probably military or political. |
|
The
Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress (House and Senate) |
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BBC
History: Historic Figures Heavy on the English, obviously. |
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History
of the [British] Monarchy - official UK monarchy site. Not the
place to go for the dirt and scandals, but useful nevertheless. |
|
Business
Week did a nice series on "Great
Innovators" |
|
Civil
War biographies |
|
CNN
often has biographical profiles. For these, you have to search a
bit. For example, there's one on Lech
Walesa |
|
Fortune
Small Business: Classic American Companies. An excellent
source for brief bios on business founders (such as Kemmons Wilson).
For these folks, it's often harder to find information (because they're not
"exciting"). Also, if you're interested in a company's
founder, the company website often will have a brief history (obviously
sanitized and full of praise) |
|
New York Times
archived obituaries. This is a bit cumbersome, because these aren't really
indexed. Got to Google and search
for: "Historic Person site:nytimes.com" In your Google
results, look for a link to "www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/010101".
The date is usually the person's date of birth. This sounds like a lot
of trouble., but these obits are long and detailed and really worth the
trouble. |
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If a person is
involved in politics, check and see if they've won a
Nobel
Peace Prize. Nobel.org has a biography on each winner of the prize,
including folks such as Nelson Mandela, Lech Walesa, and Woodrow Wilson |
|
PBS
American Experience. This is the series a lot of our films
came from. There's usually a companion page with some additional
information about the person. Not a complete source but certainly a
start. |
|
Time
100. These are brief profiles of the people Time felt
were the important people of the 20th century. |
|
White
House. Each past US president and first lady has a brief bio
included here. Like the UK monarchy site, this is the
"official" bio, and the scandals are omitted. For most
former presidents, there's a library or museum -- for example, see Thomas
Jefferson's home, Monticello.
Again, though, the info on these sites will usually be sanitized. |
| Wikipedia:
the
on-line, collaboratively edited encyclopedia.
I generally trust Wikipedia for people who are relatively uncontroversial
and / or long dead; for more recent figures, the information can be really
slanted. However, for those more controversial leaders (and really
anyone else), don't stop there. For anything beyond
basic facts, find a confirming source. I have found (and
corrected) inaccuracies here. [primarily in the area of
Victorian novels, under the name DrKristin]
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Leaders Through
History
Ancient World
/ Middle Ages / 1500's / 1600's
/ 1700's / 1800's / Twentieth Century
Ancient World
Middle Ages
1500's
1600's
1700's
1800's
Twentieth Century
| General
Omar Bradley (from Arlington National Cemetery; lots of photos) |
| Jimmy Carter Library and
Museum |
|
The
Churchill Centre (Winston S. Churchill) |
|
Deng
Xiaoping (CNN) |
|
Fortune,
"Not a Fool, Not a Saint" [Aaron Feuerstein, owner of Malden
Mills] |
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Business
Week,
"HP's Carly Fiorina: The Boss" |
|
Henry
Ford (New York Times obituary) |
|
Alberto
Fujimori (BBC coverage) |
|
Mohandas
Gandhi (UCLA Department of History) |
|
"The
Gates Operating System," Time (1997) |
|
Bill
Gates' Own Home Page |
|
Frontline
(PBS): John Paul II - The Millennial Pope |
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John F.
Kennedy, "The Space Challenge" (speech given Sept 13, 1962) |
|
The
King Center (Dr. Martin Luther King) |
|
The Dark
Side of Bobby Knight |
|
Huey
P. Long: Every Man a King |
|
American
Experience (PBS): MacArthur |
|
Speeches
of Douglas MacArthur |
|
Nelson
Mandela (Nobel prize biography)
|
|
Richard
Nixon (Official White House Site) |
|
Richard
Nixon (New York Times obituary) |
|
General
George S. Patton (the authorized site) |
|
John
D. Rockefeller: A Character Study (written in 1904, by Ida M. Tarbell, a
contemporary journalist) |
|
John
D. Rockefeller (New York Times obituary) |
|
Franklin
Roosevelt -- Charismatic Leadership (KOP slides) |
|
Franklin D.
Roosevelt Library and Digital Archives |
|
Antarctic
Explorers: Ernest Shackelton |
|
Fred
Smith, from Fortune |
|
Stalin
(brief CNN profile) |
|
Stalin
(BBC Profile) |
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Pat Summit
(her own site) |
|
Mother
Teresa (CNN) |
|
Margaret
Thatcher (Time profile) |
| Lech
Walesa (from CNN) |
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Kemmons
Wilson (Fortune Small Business) |
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Kemmons
Wilson (Business Week) |
Leaders By Area
Business
/ Political / Military / Social
/ Religious
Sports / Fictional
/ Miscellaneous / Women as Leaders
Business
Political
Military
Social
Religious
Sports
Fictional
Miscellaneous
Women
as Leaders
Geographic Leader Listing
US / Latin
America / Europe / Asia / Africa
US
|
|
General
Omar Bradley (from Arlington National Cemetery; lots of photos) |
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Andrew
Carnegie (New York Times obituary) |
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Jimmy Carter Library and
Museum |
|
|
Fortune,
"Not a Fool, Not a Saint" [Aaron Feuerstein, owner of Malden
Mills] |
|
|
Business
Week,
"HP's Carly Fiorina: The Boss" |
|
|
Henry
Ford (New York Times obituary) |
|
|
"The
Gates Operating System," Time (1997) |
|
|
Bill
Gates' Own Home Page |
|
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Ulysses
S. Grant (New York Times obituary) |
|
|
Thomas
Jefferson's home, Monticello, has
biographical information |
|
|
John F.
Kennedy, "The Space Challenge" (speech given Sept 13, 1962) |
|
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The
King Center (Dr. Martin Luther King) |
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The Dark
Side of Bobby Knight |
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Abraham
Lincoln Online.org |
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The
Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, courtesy of the University of
Michigan. |
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Huey
P. Long: Every Man a King |
|
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American
Experience (PBS): MacArthur |
|
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Speeches
of Douglas MacArthur |
|
|
Richard
Nixon (Official White House Site) |
|
|
Richard
Nixon (New York Times obituary) |
|
|
General
George S. Patton (the authorized site) |
|
|
John
D. Rockefeller: A Character Study (written in 1904, by Ida M. Tarbell, a
contemporary journalist) |
|
|
John
D. Rockefeller (New York Times obituary) |
|
|
Franklin
Roosevelt -- Charismatic Leadership (KOP slides) |
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Franklin D.
Roosevelt Library and Digital Archives |
|
|
Fred
Smith, from Fortune |
|
|
Pat Summit
(her own site) |
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| Kemmons
Wilson (Fortune Small Business) |
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| Kemmons
Wilson (Business Week) |
Latin America
Europe
Asia
Africa
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Kristin's
Thoughts (As of January 19, new posts)