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MLD 325: BECOMING A LEADER
Fall 2013
(Syllabus Subject to Change)
Course Instructor: David Gergen, 617-496-1982, [email protected]
Faculty Assistant: Monet Banihashem, 617-496-0556, Monet _ [email protected]
Research Assistant: Dan Katz, 617-872-5392, [email protected]
Course Assistants: Amandla Ooko-Ombaka, [email protected]
Justin Freeh, [email protected]
Joshua Lipsky, [email protected]
CLASS MEETINGS
Class sessions are scheduled on Monday and Wednesday, from 4:10 to 5:30 PM in L-140. Class
attendance is expected. There will be occasional meetings outside of the scheduled class time.
COURSE OBJECTIVES
No course could plausibly claim to create a leader on its own – and MLD 325 is no exception.
The purpose of this course is to help you advance in your own leadership journey. Through
lectures, readings, occasional film screenings, and outside speakers, the course is intended to
illuminate the paths that others have taken by men and women in the past and to provide a spark
for your own leadership development. We will also explore new ways of leading in today’s
younger generation.
AUDIENCE
This course is intended for students interested in and committed to improving their leadership
capacity. It is designed for a wide array of students – from those with little leadership experience
to those who have led large teams, American to international, inside the Kennedy School and
out.
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Please note that enrollment will be limited. In the event that the course is oversubscribed, 84% of
spaces will be reserved for HKS students and other spaces will be reserved for National Security
Fellows and cross-registered students. HKS will conduct and post the results.
Students interested in cross-registering should submit a 2 page application that consists of a
single page explaining why the course is important to you and a one page resume. Please submit
together as one word document (please do not submit pdf’s). The deadline to submit these
materials is September 9th, 2013.
E-mail to [email protected]
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As a cross-registrant, you will be sent a confirmation that we have received your application. For
all students, there may be a short wait list. Audits will be permitted as long as there are available
seats.
EXPECTATIONS & ASSIGNMENTS
Please note that readings will be extensive and students will be expected to have read them prior
to class. Students will be required to write individual papers in mid-semester and to join with 23 other members of the class to write a final paper. Students will also be encouraged to speak up
in class.
GRADING
Assignments will be allocated as follows:
Mid-term paper 45%
End paper 45%
Class participation 10%
In assigning a final grade, the instructor will be mindful of HKS grading guidelines.
OFFICE HOURS
Professor Gergen is periodically available for office appointments by contacting his research
assistant, Dan Katz, at [email protected]
COURSE MATERIALS
Course readings will be distributed online through the KNet course page. Required books will be
available at The Coop. Copies of all books will be placed on reserve in the HKS library.
REQUIRED BOOKS
--Aurelius, Marcus. Meditations.
--Belmonte, Kevin. William Wilberforce: A Hero for Humanity.
--Bennis, Warren. On Becoming a Leader.
--Champy & Nohria, The Arc of Ambition.
--Christensen, Clayton, How Will You Measure Your Life?
--Colvin, Geoff. Talent Is Overrated.
--Edmondson, Amy C. Teaming; How Organizations Learn, Innovate and Compete in the
Knowledge Economy
--Gardner, John. On Leadership.
--Gilbert, Martin, Winston Churchill’s War Leadership
--George, Bill. True North.
--Gergen, David. Eyewitness to Power
--McPhee, John. A Sense of Where You Are.
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--Noonan, Peggy. On Speaking Well
--Sandberg, Sheryl, Lean In
--Stengel, Richard, Mandela's Way: Lessons on Life, Love and Courage
RECOMMENDED READING
--Collins, Jim. Good to Great.
--Covey, Stephen R. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.
ORDER OF CLASSES:
Part 1: The Inner Journey
Introduction to Leadership
Forging Your Character
Journey to Authenticity
Discovering Your Inner Fire
Honing Your Judgment
Developing Your Talent
Film Night: Amazing Grace
Part 2: The Outer Journey
Developing Your Empathy and Emotional Intelligence
Winning Respect and Influence
Learning to Lead
Building and Motivating Teams (I)
Building and Motivating Teams (II)
Finding Your Voice (I)
Finding Your Voice (II)
Leading in a Crisis
Women & Leadership (I)
Women and Leadership (II)
Leadership Styles in Other Cultures
Making Diversity a Friend
Building Your Career
Principle vs Compromise
The Dark Arts: Cunning & Intrigue
Dangers of Derailment
Growing from Adversity
Leading an Integrated Life
PART I: THE INNER JOURNEY
Fri, 9/6 - Introduction to Leadership
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Arthur Schlesinger Jr., The Cycles of American History, (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1999),
“Democracy and Leadership,” pp. 419 – 436.
Garry Wills, Certain Trumpets: The Nature of Leadership (Simon & Schuster,
1995), “Introduction,” pp. 11-22.
John Gardner, On Leadership, (Simon and Schuster, 2013), “The Nature of Leadership,” pp. 110, “The Tasks of Leadership,” pp.11-22.
Graham Allison and Robert D. Blackwill, Lee Kuan Yew: The Grand Master's Insights on China,
the United States, and the World (The MIT Press, 2013), pp. 113-117, 145-149.
Barbara Kellerman, The End of Leadership (HarperBusiness, 2012), pp. xiii-23.
John Coleman, Passion & Purpose: Stories from the Best and Brightest Young Business Leaders
(Harvard Business Review Press, 2011), “Convergence,” pp. 11-16.
Mon 9/9 - Forging Your Character
John Gardner, On Leadership (Free Press 1993), “The Moral Dimension”, pp. 67-80.
Kathleen A. Reardon, Tests of a Leader, “Courage as a Skill”, Harvard Business Review, January
2007: pp. 23-38.
Champy and Nohria, The Arc of Ambition (Basic Books, 2001), “Never Violate Values”, pp. 143162.
James O’Toole, Leading Change (Ballantine Books, 1996), “The Rushmoreans,” pp. 19-36.
Paul Tough, “The Character Test,” New York Times Magazine, Sept. 18, 2011.
Monday 9/11: Journey to Authenticity
Bill George, True North, Introduction; Chapter 1, “The Journey to Authentic Leadership”, pp.326; Chapter 4, “Knowing Your Authentic Self”, pp. 67-83; Chapter 5, “Practicing Your Values
and Principles”, pp. 85-102.
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Marcus Aurelius, Meditations (Penguin Books, 2005), Books II-VI, VIII, IX (pp. 11-74, 91121).
William Deresiewicz, “Solitude and Leadership,” The American Scholar, Spring 2010.
Peter Drucker, Management Challenges for the 21st Century, “Managing Oneself”, 1999, Harper
Collins.
Wed 9/16 - Discovering Your Inner Fire
Robert Steven Kaplan, What You’re Really Meant to Do (Harvard Business Review Press, 2013),
Chapter 1, “What You’re Really Meant to Do,” pp. 13-23; Chapter 3, “Finding your Passions,” pp.
61-82.
Warren Bennis, On Becoming a Leader (Basic Books; Fourth Edition), 2009: Chapter 2,
“Understanding the Basics”; Chapter 3, “Knowing Yourself”.
James Champy & Nitin Nohria, The Arc of Ambition (Basic Books, 2009), “Ambition Is the Root
of All Achievement,” pp. 3-22
Albert Schweitzer, Out of My Life and Thought (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009), “I
Resolve to Become a Jungle Doctor”, pp. 81- 95.
Wed 9/18 - Honing Your Judgment
Barbara Leaming, Jack Kennedy: The Education of a Statesman, W. W. Norton, 2006: pp. 938, 195-214.
Sorensen, Theodore C. 2001. “Judgment and Responsibility: John F. Kennedy and the Cuban
Missile Crisis.” In Presidential Judgment: Foreign Policy Decision Making in the White House.
ed. Aaron Lobel. Hollis: Hollis Publishing Company, pp. 21-40.
Howard Gardner, Five Minds for the Future, Harvard Business Review Press, 2009: “The
Synthesizing Mind”, pp. 45-76.
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Warren Bennis & Noel Tichy, Making Judgment Calls, Harvard Business Review, October 1,
2007.
Max Weber, “Politics as a Vocation” (excerpts), From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology, Oxford
University Press, 1946, pp. 114-128.
Mon 9/23 - Developing Your Talent
Geoff Colvin, Talent Is Overrated, Penguin Group, 2008, pp. 1-16, 52-104.
Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success (Little, Brown & Company, 2008), Chapter 2,
“The 10,000-Hour Rule”, pp. 35-50.
John McPhee, A Sense of Where You Are (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999), “Profile,” pp. 11-89.
Dan Pink, Drive, Riverhead Books, 2009: “Mastery,” pp. 106-128.
Film Screening – “Amazing Grace” : Recommended reading in advance of film:
Kevin Belmonte, William Wilberforce: A Hero for Humanity, pp. 15 – 151
II: THE OUTER JOURNEY
Wed 9/25 -- Developing Your Empathy and Emotional Intelligence
Warren Bennis, On Becoming a Leader, Chapter 4, “Knowing the World”; Chapter 8, “Getting
People On Your Side”.
Daniel Goleman, “What Makes a Leader,” Harvard Business Review, November-December,
1998.
Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis, and Annie McKee, “Primal Leadership: The Hidden Driver
of Great Performance,” Harvard Business Review. December 1, 2001.
Daniel Goleman, Social Intelligence (Bantam, 2007), Chapter 19 “Sweet Spot of Achievement,”
pp. 267-284.
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Peter Salovey, Letter to Yale University on the occasion of his first day in office.
Adam Grant, Give and Take (Viking, 2013), pp. 1-26.
Monday 9/30 -- Winning Respect and Influence
Amy J.C. Cuddy, Matthew Kohut, and John Neffinger, “Connect, Then Lead,” Harvard Business
Review, July-August 2013.
Susan Fiske, Amy J.C. Cuddy, and Peter Glick, Universal dimensions of social cognition:
warmth and competence, Trends in Cognitive Sciences 11, no. 2 (February 2007), pp. 77–83.
Sue Shellenbarger, “How 'Power Poses' Can Help Your Career,” Wall Street Journal, Aug 21,
2013.
Betsy Myers, Take the Lead (Atria Books, 2011), “Respect,” pp. 71-87.
Wednesday, 10/2 - Learning to Lead
Michael Useem, Leading Up: How to Lead Your Boss so You Both Win (Crown Business,2003),
pp. 1-40.
John J. Gabarro and John P. Kotter. “Managing Your Boss.” HBR Classic. Harvard Business
Review 83, no. 1 (January 2005).
Richard Stengel, Mandela's Way (Crown Archetype, 2010), pp. 55-100.
Monday 10/7 - Building and Motivating Teams (I)
General Stanley McChrystal, My Share of the Task (Portfolio Hardcover, 2013): Epilogue.
Sim B. Sitkin and J. Richard Hackman, “Developing Team Leadership: An Interview with Coach
Mike Krzyzewski,” Academy of Management Learning & Education, 2011, Vol. 10, No. 3, pp.
494-501.
Mike Krzyzewski, Leading with the Heart (Hachette Book Group, 2000), pp. 19-34.
Ruth Wageman and Debra A. Nunes, et al., Senior Leadership Teams: What It Takes to Make
Them Great (Harvard Business School Press, 2008), “Preface”, pp. xi-xix., “The
Fall of the Heroic CEO and the Rise of the Leadership Team”, pp. 1-23.
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Dan Pink, Drive (Riverhead Books, 2009), “Introduction” and “Chapter 1,” pp. 1-31.
Wed 10/9 -- Building and Motivating Teams (II)
Amy C. Edmondson, Teaming; How Organizations Learn, Innovate and Compete in the
Knowledge Economy (Harvard Business School Press, 2012), pp 1-80, pp 257-287
Faaiza Rashid, Amy C. Edmondson, and Herman B. Leonard, Leadership Lessons from the
Chilean Mine Rescue, Harvard Business Review, July-August 2013.
Liz Kowalczyk, “Hospitals size up the lessons of Marathon attacks,” Boston Globe, July 28,
2013.
Mon 10/14 -- HKS Holiday
Wed 10/16 - Finding Your Voice (I)
Abraham Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address.
Garry Wills, Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words that Remade America (Simon & Schuster, 2006),
pp. TBD.
Martin Luther King, Jr., I Have a Dream Address
Taylor Branch, The King Years (Simon & Schuster, 2013), "The March on Washington, 1963),
pp 59-68.
Garry Wills, Certain Trumpets (Simon & Schuster, 1995), “The Rhetorical Leader: Martin
Luther King, Jr.,” pp. 211-224.
Mon 10/21 - Finding Your Voice (II)
Peggy Noonan, On Speaking Well", Harper Collins, 1998, "Introduction" and pp. 3-98.
Jack Valenti, Speak Up With Confidence, “Introduction” and “The Beginning,” (Hyperion, 2002)
pp. 1-15.
David Gergen, Eyewitness to Power, “Reagan: Secrets of the Great Communicator”, pp. 210247.
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Ted Sorensen, Counselor (Harper, 2009), Chapter 12, “Speechwriting”, pp 130-142 and Chapter
18, “The President's Speeches”, pp. 215-227.
Wed 10/23 - Leading in a Crisis
Jim Stockdale, Thoughts of a Philosophical Fighter Pilot (Hoover Institution Press, 1995), pp.
44-47.
Martin Gilbert, Winston Churchill’s War Leadership (Vintage, 2004): pp 1-97
Anthony Storr, Churchill’s Black Dog, Kafka’s Mice, pp 3-51.
Mon 10/28 - Women and Leadership (I)
David Gergen, Foreword to Enlightened Power: How Women Are Transforming the Practice of
Leadership, pp. xv –xxix.
Herminia Ibarra, Robin Ely, and Deborah Kolb, Women Rising: The Unseen Barriers, Harvard
Business Review, September 2013.
Women in the Workplace: A Research Round-up, Harvard Business Review, September 2013.
Nannerl Keohane, “Crossing the Bridge: Reflections on Women and Leadership”, in Women and
Leadership, Kellerman and Rhode ed. pp. 65-92. 2007.
Ann Marie Slaughter, “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All,” Atlantic, June 2012.
Wed 10/30 - Women and Leadership (II)
Sheryl Sandberg, Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead (Knopf, 2013), pp. 3-51, 77-139.
Mon 11/4 - Leadership Styles in Other Cultures
D. Quinn Mills, “Asian and American Leadership Styles: How Are They Unique?”, Harvard
Business School Working Knowledge, 2005.
“How Cultural Factors Affect Leadership”, Knowledge@Wharton, 1999.
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P. Christopher Earley and Elaine Mosakowski, “Cultural Intelligence”, Harvard Business
Review, 2004.
Robin J. Ely et al., “Rethinking Political Correctness”, Harvard Business Review, 2006.
John Coleman et al., Passion & Purpose (Harvard Business Review Press, 2011),
“Globalization” and “Bridging Two Worlds,” pp. 55-66.
Wed 11/6 - Making Diversity a Friend
Readings TBD
Mon 11/11 - HKS Holiday
Wed 11/13 – No Class
Mon 11/18- Principle vs Compromise
Richard Stengel, Mandela's Way, "Have a Core Principle", pp. 101-114
Kristen Downey, The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life and Legacy of Frances Perkins,
pp. TBD.
Walter Isaacson, Profiles in Leadership (W.W. Norton & Company, 2010): Introduction, pp. 1116; Hoover and Roosevelt, pp. 187-206.
Goodwin, Doris Kearns, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (Simon &
Schuster, 2005), pp. 686-696.
Wed 11/20 – Building Your Career I (Bob Barnett)
Doris Kearns Goodwin, Lyndon Johnson & The American Dream, (Harper & Row, 1967), pp.
72- 117.
Saslow, Eli, “Rising Political Star Adopts Low Key Strategy” October 17, 2008, The Washington
Post (on Senator Barack Obama).
Jack Welch, Jack: Straight From the Gut, 2001, (Warner Business Books), pp. 3-61.
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Sheryl Sandberg, Lean In, "It's a Jungle Gym, Not a Ladder", pp. 52-63.
Citrin, James M. and Richard A. Smith, The Five Patterns of Extraordinary Careers: The Guide
for Achieving Success and Satisfaction, (New York: Three Rivers Press 2003), “Introduction:
The Five Patterns of Extraordinary Careers,” pp. 1-13.
Mon 11/25 – Building Your Career II (Harry Rhoads, Jr.)
Doris Kearns Goodwin, Lyndon Johnson & The American Dream, (Harper & Row, 1967), pp.
72- 117.
Saslow, Eli, “Rising Political Star Adopts Low Key Strategy” October 17, 2008, The Washington
Post (on Senator Barack Obama).
Jack Welch, Jack: Straight From the Gut, 2001, (Warner Business Books), pp. 3-61.
Sheryl Sandberg, Lean In, "It's a Jungle Gym, Not a Ladder", pp. 52-63.
Citrin, James M. and Richard A. Smith, The Five Patterns of Extraordinary Careers: The Guide
for Achieving Success and Satisfaction, (New York: Three Rivers Press 2003), “Introduction:
The Five Patterns of Extraordinary Careers,” pp. 1-13.
Wed 11/27 - HKS Holiday
Mon 12-2 – The Dark Arts: Cunning & Intrigue AND Dangers of Derailment
Machiavelli, The Prince, “Dedication” and chapters XVI through XIX; XXIII.
Richard Nixon, Leaders, “In The Arena: Reflections on Leadership”, 1982, pp. 320-345.
David Gergen, Eyewitness to Power, Nixon, “Why He Fell”, pp. 65-104.
Rod Kramer, “The Great Intimidators”, Harvard Business Review, February, 2006.
--Bill George, True North, Chapter 2, “Why Leaders Lose Their Way”.
Champy & Nohria, The Arc of Ambition, “Temper Ambition,” pp. 99-114.
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Michael Maccoby, “Narcissistic Leaders: The Incredible Pros, The Inevitable Cons,” Harvard
Business Review on Leadership at the Top (Harvard Business School Press, 2003).
Wed 12-4 - Growing from Adversity AND Leading an Integrated Life
Ted Morgan, FDR: A biography (Simon and Schuster, 1985), Chapter 10: “The Stricken Prince.”
Warren Bennis, Geeks & Geezers: Foreword by David Gergen; Chapter 1, “Leading and
Learning for Lifetime”, pp. 1-21.
Richard Stengel, Mandela's Way (Crown, 2010), p. 1-54, pp. 115-160, pp. 169-178.
--Clayton Christensen, How Will You Measure Your Life? (HarperCollins Publishers, 2012).
John Gardner, On Leadership, (Free Press, 1993), “Renewing”, pp. 121-137.
Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Free Press, 2004), “Habit 7: Sharpen
the Saw”, pp. 287-307.
Bill George, True North, Chapter 8, “Staying Grounded: Integrating Your Life”.
Milhaly Csikszenthmihalyi, Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement With Everyday Life
(Basic Books, 1997), p. 17-34.
Richard Stengel, Mandela's Way, pp. 179-224.
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