Leadership Lessons From The Great Books

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad w/Professor Moumin Quazi

Show Notes

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad w/Professor Moumin Quazi
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  • Welcome and Introduction - 00:30
  • Why Heart of Darkness? - 08:00
  • Critiquing Chinua Achebe and "Things Fall Apart" - 18:00
  • Leaders and Identity - 20:00
  • Geography, Rivers, and Culture - 25:00
  • Leading Followers with Different Worldviews - 29:00
  • Avoiding The Seduction of Easy Answers to Hard Questions - 36:00
  • Battling Epistemological Anxiety - 39:00
  • "Fiction is Lies That Tell The Truth" - 48:00
  • Closing the Gap Between Epistemology and Objective Reality - 53:00
  • Leading Through Chattel Slavery - 52:00
  • Apocalypse Now by Francis Ford Coppola - 1:00:00
  • Get Off the Boat, Because You're Going All The Way - 1:05:00
  • The Tension Between Technology and Nature - 1:09:00
  • What Happens When No One Is Watching - 1:17:00
  • The Man in Black: Kurtz as a Nietzschean Metaphor - 1:21:05
  • Globalization and Colonialism - 1:27:00
  • The Benefits of Closing the Gap Between Speech and Action - 1:36:00
  • Chekhov's Gun - 1:40:00
  • Staring into the Abyss and Having it Stare back Through You - 1:54:00
  • Staying on the Path - 2:15:00
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Host
Jesan Sorrells
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What is Leadership Lessons From The Great Books?

Because understanding great literature is better than trying to read and understand (yet) another business book, Leadership Lessons From The Great Books leverages insights from the GREAT BOOKS of the Western canon to explain, dissect, and analyze leadership best practices for the post-modern leader.