Directory of the 5 Pre-Course Readings for the Course 'Being A Leader and the Effective Exercise of Leadership: An Ontological/Phenomenological Model'

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What follows are instructions to access the four pdf files that contain the Pre-Course Assignments for our most recent leadership course A Leader and Effective Exercise Of Leadership: An Ontological/Phenomenological Model. The promise of the course is to leave participants actually being leaders and exercising leadership effectively, and for the course to contribute to creating a new science of leadership. course is founded on what we term an ontological/phenomenological model of human nature. Pre-Course Readings 1-2: his document (compiled by Erhard, Jensen, Echeverria and Granger) comprises the first and second Pre-Course reading assignments for the course. The Transformational Experiences That Leave Ordinary People Being Leaders (primarily contains quotes selected, with permissions, from Warren Bennis & Robert Thomas, Crucibles of (2002) regarding “crucibles”, with commentary by us) and Education as Stretching the Mind by Jamshed Bharucha (2008). Download this pre-course reading at this url: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2416455 Pre-Course Reading 3: Integrity: Without It Nothing Works (Interview of Jensen by Karen Christensen). Download this pre-course reading at this url: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1511274 Pre-Course Reading 4: Integrity: A Positive Model that Incorporates the Normative Phenomena of Morality, Ethics, and Legality - Abridged (by Erhard, Jensen and Zaffron). Download this pre-course reading at this url: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1542759 Pre-Course Reading 5: Introductory Reading for Being a Leader and the Effective Exercise of Leadership: An Ontological/Phenomenological Model (by Erhard, Jensen, Zaffron and Granger). Download this pre-course reading at this url: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1585976 --------------- In addition to the pre-course readings above, the full set of course materials including the Slide-Deck Textbook and other course materials for the most current Leadership Course can be found at: Course Materials for: Being a Leader and the Effective Exercise of Leadership - An Ontological/Phenomenological Model (by Erhard, Jensen, Zaffron and Granger) http://ssrn.com/abstract=1263835 --------------- If you are interested in reading about the teaching method used in this course please see our Chapter 16 in: Scott Snook, Nitin Nohria, Rakesh Khurana, Editors “The Handbook For Teaching Leadership” Sage Publications, 2011: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1681682