{"product_id":"leadership-essential-writings-by-our-greatest-thinkers-a-norton-anthology-9780393603668","title":"Leadership: Essential Writings by Our Greatest Thinkers: A Norton Anthology","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat is the connection between literature and leadership? Are leaders born or are they made? Elizabeth D. Samet, the author of the award-winning Soldier s Heart and a professor of English at West Point, brings to this anthology her profound experiences as a teacher of soldiers, her discerning ear for excellent writing, and her belief in the vital role of the humanities in cultivating leaders. Great writers and thinkers in conversation that is what makes Samet s approach distinctive. Samet organizes the writings around the essence of leadership the insights, skills, and actions that effective leaders, with time and experience, learn to live by. What are these insights, skills, and actions? Newcomers to any organization must first study the system, then find and emulate models, risk change, cultivate trust, negotiate, take responsibility, learn from failure, learn to resist, innovate, discipline desire, and eventually let go. These ideas, brought to life in selections written by or about unforgettable leaders be they heroic, quixotic, or villainous shape the book. Machiavelli, Macbeth, and Milosz, Ghandi and Gawande, Douglass and Didion are just a sampling of the 102 writers and works included. Readers of Leadership will enjoy its sheer variety at the same time that they enter a thought-provoking, often moving conversation that is both ancient and crucially current.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSamet, Elizabeth D.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eElizabeth D. Samet\u003c\/strong\u003e received her BA from Harvard and her PhD in English literature from Yale. She is the author of \u003cem\u003eNo Man's Land: Preparing for War and Peace in Post-9\/11 America\u003c\/em\u003e (Macmillan); and \u003cem\u003eSoldier's Heart: Reading Literature Through Peace and War at West Point\u003c\/em\u003e (FSG \u0026amp; Picador), which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest and was named one of The New York Time's 100 Notable Books of 2007; and \u003cem\u003eWilling Obedience: Citizens, Soldiers, and the Progress of Consent in America, 1776-1898\u003c\/em\u003e (Stanford UP). Her essays and reviews have been published in various venues, including \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe New Republic\u003c\/em\u003e. Samet is a professor of English at West Point. She speaks often to both civilian and military audiences on the role of literature in shaping future military officers, and she was a member of the Army Chief of Staff's 2011-2012 Task Force on Leader Development. She has appeared on the \u003cem\u003eNewsHour with Jim Lehrer\u003c\/em\u003e, NPR, and the BBC World Service.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. W. Norton \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50376839594258,"sku":"9780393603668","price":46.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_eb53144d-9c51-472a-86df-f2500cc6945f.jpg?v=1728609333","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/leadership-essential-writings-by-our-greatest-thinkers-a-norton-anthology-9780393603668","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}