GESC2120 / GPAD 1046
The Art of Leadership
Lecture Time:
Friday 3:30 pm - 6:15 pm
Venue:
UCC C1
Instructor:
Choy Chi-keung 蔡子強
Tel. No:
26097529
Office:
Office Consultation Hours:
UCC Rm.310
Tuesday
2:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Thursday
2:30 am - 4:30 pm
1. Course Aims and Objectives:
This course will examine and critically analyze the multifaceted phenomenon
known as leadership. While sharing a number of personalities and attributes,
leaders also possess various arts and skills. The goal of this course is to provide
the students with a better understanding of these personalities, attributes, arts and
skills, and to assess their proper role. Through studying experiences of different
political, business, cultural and social leaders, students can have a better picture of
what leadership is.
2. Assesssment:
Book Report / Assignment
Final Examination / Term paper
40%
60%
Book Report
Each student is requested to review a biography of any world political, business, social and
cultural leaders and submit a book report. In this report, he/she needs to sum up and analyze
the successful (or unsuccessful) experiences of this leader. Finally, relevant lessons are also
requested to draw and suggest to local leaders.
3. Lecture Topics
Topic 1: Personality Traits and Leadership
Suggested Reading:
 Northouse, Peter G., Leadership : Theory and Practice, (SAGE, 2003)
Topic 2:
Speech Writing
Suggested Readings:
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Hume, James C., The Sir Winston Method: the Five Secrets of Speaking the Language of
Leadership, (New York: William Morrow, 1991).
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Hume, James C., Speak Like Churchill, Stand Like Lincoln : 21 Powerful Secrets of
History's Greatest Speakers, (Three Rivers Press, 2002).
MacArthur, Brian (ed.), The Penguin Book of 20th Century Speeches, (London: Penguin,
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1999).
Jay, Antony (ed.), The Oxford Dictionary of Political Quotations, (Oxford University
Press, 2004)
Baker, Daniel (ed.). Political Quotations: A Collection of Notable Sayings on Politics
Antiquity through 1989, 1990
Topic 3: Handling Media
Video Appreciation:
Frost vs Nixon
馬英九出席《康熙來了》
Suggested Readings:
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蔡子強，《新君王論 V》 第十八節：訪談與搏奕
倪炎元，
《公關政治學》
，第九章 說服公關與政治修辭管理，(台北 : 商周出版, 2009).
Topic 4: Leadership at Time of Adversity
Movie Appreciation: Shackleton’s Story
Suggested Readings:
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Perkins, Dennis N.T., Leading at the Edge, (American Management Assoication, 2000)
Morrell, Margot and Stephanie Capparell, Shackleton’s Way, (Viking, 2000).
Topic 5: Leadership at Crisis
Case Studies: 2009 Typhoon Morakot Disaster in Taiwan
2008 Earthquake Disaster in China
2005 Katrina Typhoon Disaster in USA
Suggested Readings:
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蔡子強，《新君王論 V》
第一節：災難領袖學
第二節：國殤領袖學
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蔡子強，《新君王論 IV》
第九節：危機管理五部曲
第十節：承受壓力
第十一節：承擔責任
Boin, Arjen, Paul ‘t Hart, Eric Stern and Bengt Sundelius, The Politics of Crisis
Management: Public Leadership under Pressure, (Cambridge University Press, 2005)
Axelrod, Alan, Profiles in Audacity: Great Decisions and how they were made, (New York:
Sterling, 2006)
Giuliani, W. Rudolph with Ken Kurson, Leadership, (New York: Hyperion, 2002)
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Topic 6: Decision Making Theories
Movie Appreciation: Thirteen Days
Allison, Garham T. (1971), Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis,
Boston: Little, Brown and Company.
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Topic 7: Managing Perception
Suggested Readings:
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Levine, Robert, The Power of Persuasion: How We’re Brought and Sold, (John Wiley &
Sons, 2003)
《新君王論 IV》 第十三節：Exepectation Management: 孤獨推銷員的必修課
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Giuliani, W. Rudolph with Ken Kurson, Leadership, (New York: Hyperion, 2002).
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Topic 8: Negotiation
Suggested Reading:
 Cohen, Herb, Negotiate This! By Caring, But Not T-H-A-T Much, (Warner Business Books,
2003).
 Cohen, Herb, You can Negotiate Anything, (Bentam, 1982).
Topic 9: Leading Change
Movie Appreciation: Last Samurai
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Kotter, John P., Leading Change, (Harvard Business School Press, 1996)
Kotter, John P., The Heart of Change, (Harvard Business School Press, 2002)
Topic 10: Vision and Leadership
Movie Appreciation: Gandhi
Movie Appreciation: Invictus
Suggested Reading:
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Philips, Donald T., Martin Luther King, Jr. on Leadership: Executive Strategies for
Tough Times, (Time Warner Company, 1992).
Gardner, Howard, Leading Minds: An Anatomy of Leadership, (Harper Collins, 1995)
Ciulla, Joanne B. (2002), The Ethics of Leadership, (Wadsworth Publishing, 2002)
Topic 11: Leadesrhip: the Inner Journey
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Heifetz, Ronald and Marty Linsky, Leadership on the Line, (Harvard Business School
Press, 2002