Leadership Can Be Taught: A Bold Approach for a Complex World »

Parks discusses the approach to teaching leadership called "case-in- point," developed by Ronald Heifetz at Harvard's Canter for Public Leadership, which takes to task the idea of born leaders. She describes Heifetz's multidisciplinary teaching method, which uses personal experience and seminar, simulation, presentation, discussion and dialogue, clinical-therapeutic practice, coaching, the laboratory, art, writing, and case study to teach leadership. She looks at its underlying theory, overall concepts including presence and authority, and use in social groups and the workplace. The experiences of teachers and those who have applied the method are discussed. Parks is Director of Leadership for the New Commons at Whidbey Institute in Washington. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR