A deeply insightful approach to cultivating leaders of character centered on the arts and humanities
What does it mean to lead? Whom do we consider to be leaders? And how might viewing leadership through the many lenses of the humanities expand our understanding of how it is imagined, represented, and enacted?
Drawing on insights from eminent scholars in the classics, philosophy, religion, literature, history, art, music, and the theater, The Arts of Leading reveals the power of the arts and humanities to unsettle common assumptions about leadership and offer new contexts. Rather than instrumentalizing the arts and humanities or reducing them to mere management resources, this series of thoughtful and refreshing essays engages a litany of diverse and nuanced perspectives to uncover alternative ways of imagining and embodying leadership across different historical, moral, political, and cultural contexts.
By exploring how a wide range of disciplines can illuminate and humanize complex aspects of leadership that are often obscured in a discourse hooked on reductive paradigms and quick fixes, The Arts of Leading invites leaders, scholars, and citizens to expand their practice of leadership in our ever-evolving world.
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"A fascinating collection of essays premised on the idea that the arts and humanities show and support ethical leadership in its many forms, cultures, and contexts. In a time of rising polarization and tech-fueled disruption, when the public is yearning for trustworthy leaders, The Arts of Leading is essential reading." Daniel R. Porterfield, President and CEO, Aspen Institute
ForewordLeading Stories and Stories of LeadersElleke Boehmer
IntroductionHumanizing Leadership: Reimagining Leadership as a Liberal ArtEdward Brooks and Michael Lamb
PART I. CLASSICS1. Conversant Leadership: Ciceronian Ideas for Our Precarious AgeJoy Connolly2. Tragedies of Leadership: Sophocles, Aristotle, and Shakespeare on TyrannyEdith Hall
PART II. PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION3. Leadership Lessons from Plato's RepublicNoah Lopez4. Mosaic LeadershipAlan Mittleman5. Just Leadership in Early Islam: The Teachings and Practice of Imam AliTahera Qutbuddin6. Women's Work and the Question of LeadershipMarla Frederick
PART III. LITERATURE7. Shakespeare, His Books, and LeadershipJohn Miles8. Crooked Politics: Shakespeare's Richard III and Leadership in the Twenty-First-Century United StatesKristin M. S. Bezio
PART IV. HISTORY9. Lincoln and Leadership in a Racist DemocracyPaul Escott10. Leadership from the Ground: Enslaved People and the Civil WarThavolia Glymph
PART V. VISUAL ARTS11. Leadership in Bronze: Boston's Shaw Memorial and the Battle over Civil War MemoryDavid M. Lubin12. Visual Leadership: The Power of Art in the Obama PresidencyGwendolyn DuBois Shaw
PART VI. PERFORMING ARTS13. "O Clap Your Hands!": Leadership Lessons from the Experience of MusicPegram Harrison14. Acting to Uncover: Theater and Inclusive LeadershipMelissa Jones Briggs
ConclusionDemos and Deep Democracy: Leadership, the Humanities, and a New HumanCorey D. B. Walker
List of ContributorsAcknowledgmentsIndex
Edward Brooks is executive director of the Oxford Character Project and director of the Programme for Global Leadership in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford. He is also cofounder of Oxford's SDG Impact Lab and coeditor of Cultivating Virtue in the University (2022) and Literature and Character Education in Universities (2022).
Michael Lamb is the F. M. Kirby Foundation Chair of Leadership and Character, executive director of the Program for Leadership and Character, and associate professor of interdisciplinary humanities at Wake Forest University. He is also an associate fellow of the Oxford Character Project and author of A Commonwealth of Hope (2022) and coeditor of Cultivating Virtue in the University (2022) and Everyday Ethics (Georgetown University Press, 2019).
Elleke Boehmer is Professor of World Literature in English at the University of Oxford. She is a founding figure in the field of colonial and postcolonial literary studies, and internationally known for her research in the anglophone literatures of empire and anti-empire.
