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MAIS 607: Leadership—and Insurrection (Rev. C1) Report a Broken Link

MAIS 607: Leadership—and Insurrection is designed for those who are curious about leadership and want to know more, but are wary (and perhaps weary) of the hype surrounding it. This course extracts the rational kernel of leadership from its mystical, ideological shell and gives equal consideration to insurrection—leadership’s dark, simmering underside. The course presents a choice between blindly following others (the furrow) and leading oneself (the ploughshare), and asks when and under what conditions is it legitimate to challenge the authority of our leaders.

Required Readings

DeVries, Kelly. (2011). Joan of Arc: A military leader. Stroud, Gloucestershire: The History Press.

Assignment 1

Davis, Murray S. (1999). “Aphorisms and clichés: The generation and dissipation of conceptual charisma.” Annual Review of Sociology 25(1), 245–269.
Tsoukas, Haridimos. (1991). "The missing link: A transformational view of metaphors in organizational science." The Academy of Management Review 16(3), 566–585.
Maynard, P., & Roberts, Simon. (2017, 26 April). “100 days of Trump: orders, tweets, leaks and military attacks” [Video file]. The Guardian. Retrieved from: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2017/apr/26/donald-trump-first-100-days-office-in-four-minutes-video
Cole, Juan. (2017, 11 May). “The sadism of creeping dictatorship.” Informed Comment. Retrieved from: https://www.juancole.com/2017/05/sadism-creeping-dictatorship.html
Elmer, G., & Todd, P. (2016). “Don’t be a loser: Or how Trump turned the Republican primaries into an episode of The Apprentice.“ Television & New Media 17(7), 660–662. Retrieved from: https://0-journals-sagepub-com.aupac.lib.athabascau.ca/doi/full/10.1177/1527476416652696
Gabler, N. (2016, March 14). “We all enabled Donald Trump: Our deeply unserious media and reality-TV culture made this horror inevitable.” Salon. Retrieved from: https://www.salon.com/2016/03/14/we_all_enabled_donald_trump_our_deeply_unserious_media_and_reality_tv_culture_made_this_horror_inevitable/
Heritage, S. (2016, 10 November). “You’re hired: How The Apprentice led to President Trump.” The Guardian. Retrieved from: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/nov/10/trump-the-apprentice-president-elect-reality-tv
Heritage, S. (2016, 20 May). “The toxic political legacy of The Apprentice.” The Guardian. Retrieved from: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/may/10/apprentice-donald-trump-political-rise-election-2016
Smith, D. (2017, 10 May). “‘You are terminated.’ The three letters that ended James Comey’s career.” The Guardian. Retrieved from: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2017/may/10/you-are-hereby-terminated-the-letters-that-fired-james-comey-explained
Smith, D. (2017, 13 May). “Comey, chaos . . . crisis? Trump enters new territory after most explosive week yet.” The Guardian. Retrieved from: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/13/donald-trump-james-comey-fbi-explosive-week