Magellan shows today’s leaders the value of making a well-researched bold prediction, and then sticking to the plan no matter what happens. Patrick J. Murphy and Ray W. Coye’s Mutiny and Its Bounty: Leadership Lessons from the Age of Discovery explores how great seafaring captains like Columbus and Magellan not only quelled mutinies but also built upon such incidents […]
Columbus shows today’s leaders how to use communication skill to spirit people to the edge of success and failure, and then use mutiny as a force to carry them over the line to success. Patrick J. Murphy and Ray W. Coye’s Mutiny and Its Bounty: Leadership Lessons from the Age of Discovery explores how great seafaring captains like […]
Settled by Puritans in 1638, New Haven, Connecticut was the first planned city in America. A few weeks ago in New Haven, a group of citizens met in the basement of a middle school to discuss the well-being of their town. Issues like “food deserts,” street crime, and health problems came to the forefront as dozens […]
Read an excerpt from Democracy in Retreat on TheAtlantic.com! Citizens and leaders of the United States tend to take their democracy for granted. At first China, South Korea, Taiwan, Russia, and more were considered to exceptions – nations moving against the powerful solution of democracy. They accounted for a small but worrisome portion of the world population. […]
It seems that Americans are constantly lamenting the power of the Internet, worrying that it has completely taken over the United States’ economy, markets, and psyche. They embrace the idea of disconnecting and getting outdoors, away from the screens and keyboards. This mentality stems from the luxury of access: Americans take for granted that they […]
Follow @ProfPJM The Ides of March commemorates one of history’s most famous mutinies: the murder of Julius Caesar at the Roman Senate in 44 B.C. Turning against established leadership is thoroughly covered in Mutiny and Its Bounty: Leadership Lessons from the Age of Discovery, in which authors Patrick J. Murphy and Ray W. Coye explore how great […]
Time for another month-long update on Yale University Press’s latest books covering the vast world of domestic and global politics and current events! Beginning with Jess Bravin‘s The Terror Courts: Rough Justice at Guantanamo Bay, the topic of prisoner treatment takes center-stage, and Bravin, a Wall Street Journal Supreme Court correspondent who has covered the Guantanamo Bay prison camp […]
It would hardly be an understatement to say that environmental advocate Gus Speth has seen it all. An “ultimate insider,” according to TIME, he’s worked for two presidential administrations and the United Nations, founded two environmental organizations, served as an academic dean at an Ivy League institution, and currently teaches environmental law. But what he’s […]
Advertising used to be simpler. Before the birth of cable television and the Internet, advertisements and commercials were broader entities, built for broader channels. But because we have the ability to be increasingly selective in what we consume, advertisers, marketers, and data collectors also have the ability to increasingly discern us as consumers. This is […]
While many inaugural addresses are chastised for dodging specifics, President Barack Obama provided a surprising amount of detail in his second inaugural address last Monday. He openly took on the problems of the middle class, immigration policy, access to healthcare, children’s safety, and the rights of gay Americans, setting a tone of disciplined confrontation to […]
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