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What is leadership? Who is a leader? How does a leader behave? What is effective leadership? What characterizes ineffective leadership? How is leadership influenced by context? By values? By risks? By hopes? By fears? Why is leadership needed? When is it needed? Is it really needed?
These are just a few of the questions to be considered by The Fellowship of St. George. Please join us in reading, thinking, and sharing your own experience with leadership. Please join us in exploring leadership for treacherous times.
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Recommended Readings
Book of Exodus by Moses - Early experiment in change management.
The Republic by Plato - Proposed structural theory for leading larger groups.
Parallel Lives by Plutarch - Classic case-studies of individual leaders.
The Prince by Machiavelli - The original management consultant makes his case.
Gawain and the Green Knight by Unknown, wonderful translation by Simon Armitage - Leadership development for a more magical and mystical time, but plenty of practical lessons for our times.
Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices by Peter F. Drucker - Modern Moses writes management scripture for our long trek.
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl - Self-management in extremis.
On Becoming a Leader by Warren Bennis - No one will think you're serious about leadership unless you say you have read this book.
Servant Leadership by Robert K. Greenleaf - Motivation and purpose are key. Combine with Drucker, Frankl, and Bennis and you have pretty much captured the conceptual range of modern thinking on leadership.
Leading Change by John P. Kotter - Updates Machiavelli.
Good to Great by Jim Collins - Compelling leadership vignettes, a Plutarch for those with modest attention spans.
The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell - The best leadership development course currently available.
One Thing You Need to Know by Marcus Buckingham - Self-awareness, other-awareness, and applying Frankl to organizational settings.
