Reading PathsRulers and responsibility
Ten readings on wisdom, trust, counsel, preparation, and accountable leadership.
10 readings
What you will practice: Compare wisdom, influence, advice, and accountability using specific details from more than one author.
- The Republic · Plato
- The Prince · Niccolò Machiavelli
- The Art of War · Sun Tzu
- The Republic · Plato
- Cyropaedia · Xenophon
- The New State · Mary Parker Follett
- The Prince · Niccolò Machiavelli
- The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral · Francis Bacon
- On the Duty of Civil Disobedience · Henry David Thoreau
- The Art of War · Sun Tzu
Open Reading Path →Reading PathsLeading without force
Move from personal conviction to persuasion, cooperation, and responsibility for others.
10 readings
What you will practice: Use contrasting passages to explain when influence is legitimate and what limits it needs.
- Essays — First Series · Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Aesop’s Fables · Aesop (fable tradition)
- The New State · Mary Parker Follett
- The New State · Mary Parker Follett
- Cyropaedia · Xenophon
- Cyropaedia · Xenophon
- The Analects · Confucius
- Essays — First Series · Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The Wealth of Nations · Adam Smith
- The Republic · Plato
Open Reading Path →Reading PathsAdvice, dissent, and changing course
Test advisers, disagreement, majority opinion, and the reasons a leader should revise a decision.
10 readings
What you will practice: Distinguish justified revision from inconsistency by tracing whose evidence and interests a decision includes.
- Essays — First Series · Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The Prince · Niccolò Machiavelli
- The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral · Francis Bacon
- Novum Organum · Francis Bacon
- Discourse on the Method · René Descartes
- On Liberty · John Stuart Mill
- On the Duty of Civil Disobedience · Henry David Thoreau
- The Social Contract and Discourses · Jean-Jacques Rousseau
- How We Think · John Dewey
- A Vindication of the Rights of Woman · Mary Wollstonecraft
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