January 5-9, 2010
at the University of Oklahoma

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This seminar is designed to get students to think deeply about leadership, their pathway to leadership positions in government, business, the public or private sectors, and how they might pursue excellence in service to their communities as they develop a meaningful and enriched life.  It asks students to commit themselves to excellence both in themselves but also in their communities. We will examine several classical and contemporary interpretations of leadership, the uses of power  and persuasion to accomplish goals, how to develop emotional and leadership intelligence, the role of gender in leadership, how ethics come into the achievement of excellence, use sports as a metaphor for leadership, explore recent research on the development of happiness and meaning in life and how that applies to leadership, and will conclude with Aristotle’s notion of phronesis as a model for action, life, and leadership. Click here for syllabus

The Class Reading List: (These books and articles supplied by OSLEP)

• On Becoming a Leader by Warren Bennis
• The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
• Memo to a New President by Michael A. Genovese
• Reading Packet

Michael A. Genovese received his Ph.D. from the University of Southern California in 1979. He currently holds the Loyola Chair of Leadership Studies, is a Professor of Political Science, and Director of the Institute for Leadership Studies at Loyola Marymount University. In 2006, Professor Genovese was made a Fellow Commoner at the Queens College, Oxford University. Professor Genovese has written sixteen books, including The Paradoxes of the American Presidency, (co-authored by Thomas E. Cronin), Oxford University Press, 2nd ed 2004; The Presidency and the Challenges of Democracy (co-edited with Lori Cox Han), Palgrave, 2006, The Presidency and Domestic Policy, (with William W. Lammers), CQ Press, 2000, The Power of the American Presidency 1789-2000, Oxford University Press, 2001, The Presidential Dilemma, Longman, 2nd ed 2003, and The Encyclopedia of the American Presidency, Facts-on File, 2004 (winner of the New York Public Library, “Best of Reference” work of 2004). He has won over a dozen university and national teaching awards. Professor Genovese frequently appears as a political commentator on local and national television. He is also Associate Editor of the journal, White House Studies, has lectured for the United States Embassy abroad, and is editor of Palgrave Macmillan Publishing’s, “The Evolving American Presidency” book series. In 2004-05, Professor Genovese served as President of the Presidency Research Group of the American Political Science Association.