Tag Archives: Discourse on Leadership
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Bert A. Spector
In the hours and days following the June 3 rampage on London Bridge and Borough Market – a number of political leaders issued calls for travel bans and internment camps for Muslims. Predictable, maybe, but nonetheless disturbing. Any number of commentators, not to mention federal judges, have suggested the serious shortcomings of such “solutions.” My […]
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Bert A. Spector
A good deal of attention has focused on the psychological makeup of the man who sought and won the Presidency in 2016, including the provocative “Is Donald Trump a Psychopath” by fellow Cambridge author, Steven M. Stahl. (Stahl’s answer: probably not.) While I don’t expect this line of inquiry to let up anytime soon, I […]
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Bert A. Spector
“The problem of the 20th century is the problem of the color line,” W.E.B. DuBois famously observed of the United States. Despite the occasional proclamations of a post-racial society in the aftermath of Barack Obama’s 2008 election, race has continued to dominate American life well into the next century, a fact startlingly brought home in […]
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Bert A. Spector
With the 2016 election come and gone, Bert Spector reflects on leadership and resistance
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Bert A. Spector
In Discourse on Leadership, I identify a 1977 article by Harvard psychologist Abraham Zaleznik as a seminal work in our interpretation of leadership. Leaders, he argued, are folks who “develop fresh approaches to long-standing problems and open issues for new options.” In their disinclination to be constrained by the status quo, they are generators of […]
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Bert A. Spector
With only a week left before Election Day, Bert Spector dissects Trump's recent "nasty woman" comments and their relationship to leadership discourse.
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Bert A. Spector
Bert Spector on Bruce Springsteen and leadership.
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Bert A. Spector
All leadership is ideological; all business is ideological. I’ve made this argument in an earlier blog, “The Myth of Pragmatic Leadership,” as well as in Discourse on Leadership: A Critical Analysis. Over the weekend, this matter burst into the public spotlight with the revelation that one of the Presidential candidates claimed a nearly $1 billion […]
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Bert A. Spector
In the hours and days following the June 3 rampage on London Bridge and Borough Market – a number of political leaders issued calls for travel bans and internment camps for Muslims. Predictable, maybe, but nonetheless disturbing. Any number of commentators, not to mention federal judges, have suggested the serious shortcomings of such “solutions.” My […]
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Bert A. Spector
A good deal of attention has focused on the psychological makeup of the man who sought and won the Presidency in 2016, including the provocative “Is Donald Trump a Psychopath” by fellow Cambridge author, Steven M. Stahl. (Stahl’s answer: probably not.) While I don’t expect this line of inquiry to let up anytime soon, I […]
Read More
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Bert A. Spector
“The problem of the 20th century is the problem of the color line,” W.E.B. DuBois famously observed of the United States. Despite the occasional proclamations of a post-racial society in the aftermath of Barack Obama’s 2008 election, race has continued to dominate American life well into the next century, a fact startlingly brought home in […]
Read More
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Bert A. Spector
With the 2016 election come and gone, Bert Spector reflects on leadership and resistance...
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Bert A. Spector
In Discourse on Leadership, I identify a 1977 article by Harvard psychologist Abraham Zaleznik as a seminal work in our interpretation of leadership. Leaders, he argued, are folks who “develop fresh approaches to long-standing problems and open issues for new options.” In their disinclination to be constrained by the status quo, they are generators of […]
Read More
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Bert A. Spector
With only a week left before Election Day, Bert Spector dissects Trump's recent "nasty woman" commen...
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Bert A. Spector
Bert Spector on Bruce Springsteen and leadership....
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Bert A. Spector
All leadership is ideological; all business is ideological. I’ve made this argument in an earlier blog, “The Myth of Pragmatic Leadership,” as well as in Discourse on Leadership: A Critical Analysis. Over the weekend, this matter burst into the public spotlight with the revelation that one of the Presidential candidates claimed a nearly $1 billion […]
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