Power, Leadership & Organization 101
Introduction:
Welcome to Power, Leadership & Organization 101. Sincerely, thank you for investing your time and energy in this course – I hope you will see an exponential return on this investment.
I designed this course as a guide for visionary thought leaders and caretakers. More specifically, this course is for talented people, who wish to apply their talents, not merely toward supporting their own personal desires or egos, but primarily toward improving the lives of those around them and, in doing so, treating each of those lives, regardless of what form they may take, with the utmost consideration, care, respect, and dignity.
Through education, I hope to help empower these visionary thought leaders and caretakers of the future to create a better, kinder, and safer world for us all.
A goal of mine was to make this course as accessible as possible. To that end, I have written this textbook merely as a brief (and, therefore, hopefully, inexpensive) accompaniment to a much larger body of materials, all of which should be available online, free of charge, primarily through search engines such as Google Scholar (scholar.google.com).
Materials
In this course, we will discuss ten different but related modules, including “The Way” (or ‘the path of virtue’), mindfulness, positivity, creativity, transformational leadership, organizational justice, intersectionality, government/law, business/law, and inspiration.
This course attempts to orient itself around a common thread, woven together from varying strands of thought provided by all-time great thinkers, including philosophers, psychologists, attorneys, and authors, such as Laozi, Howard Gardner, Hannah Arendt, Kimberlé W. Crenshaw, Thurgood Marshall, Martin Lipton, and Maya Angelou, among others.
Theme
The “common thread,” in sum, is this idea of embracing and strengthening your natural talents (i.e., your virtuousness, mindfulness, positivity, creativity, and leadership) and putting them to the most fruitful use possible, by setting aside your own personal desires and/or ego in favor of acting and thinking justly, compassionately, considerately, and, if necessary, rebelliously or even revolutionarily, primarily for the purpose of improving the lives around you.
Outcomes
The reading materials for this course are designed to be equivalent to those of a standard, 1-credit (or perhaps 2-credit), multidisciplinary graduate-level course. I believe that proficient readers should be able to move through the materials relatively quickly. Although, for many readers, certain of the reading materials may be dense or confusing, especially for readers without backgrounds in philosophy, psychology, politics, business, or law. (To be clear, while such backgrounds may be helpful in understanding the readings, the many students without such backgrounds should still be able to benefit greatly from the course).
It is not necessarily important to immediately come away with a full understanding of each reading. What is far more important is to take in each reading as you are able, and make note only of what makes sense or stands out to you most in any given reading, including the parts of the reading that you may agree, or disagree, with. Then, afterward reflect on those notes, especially considering ways in which your notes from one module may relate to your notes from other modules. It may be helpful to revisit certain of the reading materials later on, in different phases or periods of your life, as your thoughts and perspectives evolve and grow. I continue to revisit and consult the materials regularly.
Introduction:
Welcome to Power, Leadership & Organization 101. Sincerely, thank you for investing your time and energy in this course – I hope you will see an exponential return on this investment.
I designed this course as a guide for visionary thought leaders and caretakers. More specifically, this course is for talented people, who wish to apply their talents, not merely toward supporting their own personal desires or egos, but primarily toward improving the lives of those around them and, in doing so, treating each of those lives, regardless of what form they may take, with the utmost consideration, care, respect, and dignity.
Through education, I hope to help empower these visionary thought leaders and caretakers of the future to create a better, kinder, and safer world for us all.
A goal of mine was to make this course as accessible as possible. To that end, I have written this textbook merely as a brief (and, therefore, hopefully, inexpensive) accompaniment to a much larger body of materials, all of which should be available online, free of charge, primarily through search engines such as Google Scholar (scholar.google.com).
Materials
In this course, we will discuss ten different but related modules, including “The Way” (or ‘the path of virtue’), mindfulness, positivity, creativity, transformational leadership, organizational justice, intersectionality, government/law, business/law, and inspiration.
This course attempts to orient itself around a common thread, woven together from varying strands of thought provided by all-time great thinkers, including philosophers, psychologists, attorneys, and authors, such as Laozi, Howard Gardner, Hannah Arendt, Kimberlé W. Crenshaw, Thurgood Marshall, Martin Lipton, and Maya Angelou, among others.
Theme
The “common thread,” in sum, is this idea of embracing and strengthening your natural talents (i.e., your virtuousness, mindfulness, positivity, creativity, and leadership) and putting them to the most fruitful use possible, by setting aside your own personal desires and/or ego in favor of acting and thinking justly, compassionately, considerately, and, if necessary, rebelliously or even revolutionarily, primarily for the purpose of improving the lives around you.
Outcomes
The reading materials for this course are designed to be equivalent to those of a standard, 1-credit (or perhaps 2-credit), multidisciplinary graduate-level course. I believe that proficient readers should be able to move through the materials relatively quickly. Although, for many readers, certain of the reading materials may be dense or confusing, especially for readers without backgrounds in philosophy, psychology, politics, business, or law. (To be clear, while such backgrounds may be helpful in understanding the readings, the many students without such backgrounds should still be able to benefit greatly from the course).
It is not necessarily important to immediately come away with a full understanding of each reading. What is far more important is to take in each reading as you are able, and make note only of what makes sense or stands out to you most in any given reading, including the parts of the reading that you may agree, or disagree, with. Then, afterward reflect on those notes, especially considering ways in which your notes from one module may relate to your notes from other modules. It may be helpful to revisit certain of the reading materials later on, in different phases or periods of your life, as your thoughts and perspectives evolve and grow. I continue to revisit and consult the materials regularly.
Introduction:
Welcome to Power, Leadership & Organization 101. Sincerely, thank you for investing your time and energy in this course – I hope you will see an exponential return on this investment.
I designed this course as a guide for visionary thought leaders and caretakers. More specifically, this course is for talented people, who wish to apply their talents, not merely toward supporting their own personal desires or egos, but primarily toward improving the lives of those around them and, in doing so, treating each of those lives, regardless of what form they may take, with the utmost consideration, care, respect, and dignity.
Through education, I hope to help empower these visionary thought leaders and caretakers of the future to create a better, kinder, and safer world for us all.
A goal of mine was to make this course as accessible as possible. To that end, I have written this textbook merely as a brief (and, therefore, hopefully, inexpensive) accompaniment to a much larger body of materials, all of which should be available online, free of charge, primarily through search engines such as Google Scholar (scholar.google.com).
Materials
In this course, we will discuss ten different but related modules, including “The Way” (or ‘the path of virtue’), mindfulness, positivity, creativity, transformational leadership, organizational justice, intersectionality, government/law, business/law, and inspiration.
This course attempts to orient itself around a common thread, woven together from varying strands of thought provided by all-time great thinkers, including philosophers, psychologists, attorneys, and authors, such as Laozi, Howard Gardner, Hannah Arendt, Kimberlé W. Crenshaw, Thurgood Marshall, Martin Lipton, and Maya Angelou, among others.
Theme
The “common thread,” in sum, is this idea of embracing and strengthening your natural talents (i.e., your virtuousness, mindfulness, positivity, creativity, and leadership) and putting them to the most fruitful use possible, by setting aside your own personal desires and/or ego in favor of acting and thinking justly, compassionately, considerately, and, if necessary, rebelliously or even revolutionarily, primarily for the purpose of improving the lives around you.
Outcomes
The reading materials for this course are designed to be equivalent to those of a standard, 1-credit (or perhaps 2-credit), multidisciplinary graduate-level course. I believe that proficient readers should be able to move through the materials relatively quickly. Although, for many readers, certain of the reading materials may be dense or confusing, especially for readers without backgrounds in philosophy, psychology, politics, business, or law. (To be clear, while such backgrounds may be helpful in understanding the readings, the many students without such backgrounds should still be able to benefit greatly from the course).
It is not necessarily important to immediately come away with a full understanding of each reading. What is far more important is to take in each reading as you are able, and make note only of what makes sense or stands out to you most in any given reading, including the parts of the reading that you may agree, or disagree, with. Then, afterward reflect on those notes, especially considering ways in which your notes from one module may relate to your notes from other modules. It may be helpful to revisit certain of the reading materials later on, in different phases or periods of your life, as your thoughts and perspectives evolve and grow. I continue to revisit and consult the materials regularly.