Sublime

Different people have different things to learn, and by the end of the term, my aim would be for people to have learned a lot that was relevant to them in regard to their own capacity to mobilize their communities or their organizations to make progress on the hardest of problems, which is what I think leadership is about—mobilizing people to make

ANALYZE.

I intentionally give minilectures—ten to twenty minute lectures in the midst of the conversation in the class or in a case analysis—in order to illustrate and clarify a set of ideas. I usually do so only after I’ve seen that the students have grappled with a set of ideas sufficiently that I feel that when I present the mini-lecture it’s more likely

In this approach, the teacher remains the authority in the class-room—providing orientation and maintaining equilibrium in the group. But the teacher is also practicing leadership—skillfully allowing enough disequilibrium (confusion, frustration, disappointment, conflict, and stress) to help the group move from unexamined assumptions about the prac

This is a shift in epistemology, in how we “know.” This shift entails a transformation of the relationship of self and world, a shift of consciousness, a shift in how we see. It includes a shift in how we relate to authority. Across the last several decades, there has been a growing recognition that as human beings continually make meaning (i.e., m

The challenge in our time is that as our world becomes more complex, the normative ways in which many adults make meaning are increasingly inadequate—whether we are dealing with workplace demands, with questions of how to vote in national elections, or the relationships within our households. More is now asked of us, and as one of Kegan’s book titl

Once you’ve finished at Harvard Business School or any other top academic institution, the vast majority of people you’ll interact with on a day-to-day basis may not be smarter than you. And if your attitude is that only smarter people have something to teach you, your learning opportunities will be very limited. But if you have a humble eagerness