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About the Author
Paul Woodruff is the former Darrell K. Royal Regents Professor in Ethics at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of First Democracy, the Challenge of an Ancient Idea (OUP 2005), Reverence (OUP 2014), and The Garden of Leaders (OUP 2019).
Reviews
Woodruff has written an outstanding book designed to provide administrators and faculty with a refreshing perspective-that leadership should be the mission of colleges and universities. * M.J. Safferstone, CHOICE *
In today's world, the question of what exactly constitutes leadership is perhaps more difficult to answer than ever before. And equally difficult to answer is how leadership should be taught to future generations. Drawing on examples from across the ages, Paul Woodruff offers an elegant and passionate plea to educators to give students the right experiences they need to become well-rounded renaissance leaders. * Bjorn Billhardt, CEO of Abilitie (offering leadership exercises to corporations) *
Paul Woodruff's insights let great works from classical antiquity speak out loudly and clearly about how our society can develop the leadership we so badly need. * W.R. Connor, Director, National Humanities Center, 1989-2003; President, The Teagle Foundation, 2003-2009 *
Woodruff tackles a problem that impacts us all; where can we find leaders that we can trust and who express qualities such as courage, justice, wisdom, and an ability to bring people together? We assume that our universities want to develop these qualities of character but many simply don't know how. This book outlines some revolutionary actions that professors, administrators, students, and parents can take to grow the kind of leadership that benefits us all. It's the best book on this subject that I've ever read. * David Nino, Gordon-MIT Engineering Leadership Program, MIT *
As always, Woodruff writes clearly and cogently about complex matters by drawing from his remarkably broad and varied background as soldier, philosopher, classicist, and university leader. This is not a how-to book. It is instead a serious meditation by a serious thinker who plumbs literature and life for their lessons in good- and bad- leadership. It is also an overdue call to professors to rethink the way they teach by recognizing that their primary duty is to help their students learn how to confront decisions intelligently and ethically. We have an urgent need for moral leadership in this country today, and reading Paul Woodruff's book is the best way I know to start working on the problem. * Hunter Rawlings, (Former President, University of Iowa and Cornell University) *
Book Information
ISBN 9780190883645
Author Paul Woodruff
Format Hardback
Page Count 272
Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
Publisher Oxford University Press Inc
Weight(grams) 408g
Dimensions(mm) 145mm * 211mm * 15mm