The following excerpt is from the book s introduction. Teaching Leadership Advancing. I the Field By Scott A. Snook Nitin Nohria and Rakesh Khurana . IThe Handbook for Teaching LeadershipIt has been more than twenty five years since a handful of intrepid associates in West Point s Department o. If Behavioral Sciences and Leadership published their pioneering work Leadership in Organizations.
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Textbook specifically designed to teach leadership . Since then the field of leadership has exploded. A simple Google search of leadership books. I returns more than Turkey Mobile Database million hits. Not surprisingly as overall interest in leadership has grown so has the demand for courses on the topic. Scan the mission statements of most major universities and professional schools and you ll . Ifind that educating leaders is the common thread. Search the catalogues of almost any college and you ll find dozens of courses with the word Leadership in their titles. And yet if you were charged with teaching a course on leadership today where would you start Where would you turn to learn about the incredible array of approaches to teaching this ill defined yet important topic.
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The wealth of practical experience in order to benefit from the hard won lessons of those who have gone before you What are the various theoretical assumptions and pedagogical Brazil Phone Number techniques you might consider in the process of designing and delivering a course in this underdeveloped and undisciplined in both the literal and practical sense of the word field the challenge of teaching leadership This Handbook is intended to be a foundational reference for educators who teach primarily in traditional classroom settings and who find themselves facing this increasingly important but daunting challenge.
