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Using Beowulf to Defend Lebron

By Robin Bates | Published: July 31, 2010

Sports Saturday Lebron James has been taking a lot of heat recently for joining the Miami basketball team. (Did you catch the pun?) This past trading season was termed “the Lebron Sweepstakes,” and teams from around the country trekked to Cleveland to play court to “King James.” James made the occasion particularly gaudy by persuading […]

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Literature as a Leadership Handbook

By Robin Bates | Published: September 16, 2009

Joseph Conrad  I have just begun reading a book that is very much in tune with this website: Joseph L. Badaracco’s Questions of Character: Illuminating the Heart of Leadership through Literature, published by Harvard Business School Press (2006). I report here on the introduction. The author talks about assigning Joseph Conrad’s “Secret Sharer” to a […]

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Is Obama an Allworthy or a Beowulf?

By Robin Bates | Published: August 10, 2009

Like many supporters of health care reform, I am distressed by what I see as right-wing attempts to disrupt civil discussions on the matter.  Practically no one disputes that we are facing a financial crisis over health care costs and health care coverage.  My own 27-year-old son and his wife, who have just started a […]

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