Developing Leadership Character through Adversity

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Developing Leadership Character through Adversity reverses the usual leadership assessment, requiring students to develop a new perspective on leadership causation and character. Rather than focus on leader success, this course explores leadership from the perspective of adversity and failure, which is sometimes the very cause of the leader?s effect. This course surveys leaders, current and past, who overcame difficulties and failures, using them as tools to achieve success as leaders. Students explore the sociological, psychological, and philosophical framework of leaders such as Abraham Lincoln, Adolf Hitler, Jane Addams, Julius Caesar, Napoleon Bonaparte, Nelson Mandela, Oprah Winfrey, Steve Jobs, Winston Churchill, and Donald Trump, among others. Changing the World is not an easy road, since it is filled with many a roadblock. This course explores how leaders get over roadblocks and keep moving forward.