Literature of Success

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This course explores the literature and philosophy of two age-old questions: what does it mean to be successful and how does one achieve this elusive goal? We will examine the meaning of success both at the individual and corporate level by considering case studies of successful business leaders and successful business organizations. The course surveys some of the classics of the success genre - from Plato’s The Life and Death of Socrates to Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People to Richard Shell’s Springboard. We will examine the impact of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics on the meaning of the work that we can do and the personal relations we can have. Grading is based on a mid-term paper and a final paper.