Creating Leaders, a New Model: An Evening with Werner Erhard and Michael Jensen (PDF File of Powerpoint Slides)

This presentation is based on our and our co-instructors’ (Kari Granger, Steve Zaffron and Jeri Echeviera) work over the last eleven years developing our course entitled "Being A Leader and the Effective Exercise of Leadership". The presentation was given at the University of Chicago Mandel Hall on May 3, 2015 to approximately 850 people who attended the sold out event. The course is designed to leave participants actually being leaders and exercising leadership effectively, and to contribute to creating a new science of leadership. The course is founded on what we term an ontological-phenomenological model of human nature. The ontological-phenomenological approach is uniquely effective in providing actionable access to being a leader and to exercising leadership effectively as your natural self-expression. An epistemological mastery of a subject leaves you knowing. An ontological mastery of a subject leaves you being. This course is about actionable access to being a leader and effectively exercising leadership. We specifically focus on those ontological factors that constrain and shape one’s freedom to be, and one’s perceptions, emotions, creative imagination, thinking, planning, and actions when being a leader and exercising leadership. When one is not in the grip of what we term an "ontological constraint", one’s way of being and acting results naturally in one’s personal best in any leadership situation. Our paper describing the course can be downloaded at: <a href='http://ssrn.com/abstract=1681682'>http://ssrn.com/abstract=1681682</a>. The complete 1,000 page "Slide-Deck Textbook" used in the Dubai (UAE) course during Jan. 6-9 and 11-13, 2015 can be downloaded at: <a href='http://ssrn.com/abstract=1263835'>http://ssrn.com/abstract=1263835</a>. The five pre-course readings can be downloaded at the following URLs: Readings 1 and 2 can be downloaded at: <a href='http://ssrn.com/abstract=2416455 '>http://ssrn.com/abstract=2416455 </a>. The 3rd, 4th, and 5th of the five pre-course reading assignments can be downloaded at the following URLs: Third Reading: "Integrity: Without It Nothing Works" (an interview that serves as an introductory summary of our new model of integrity) <a href='http://ssrn.com/abstract=1511274 '>http://ssrn.com/abstract=1511274 </a>. The fourth reading: "Integrity: A Positive Model that Incorporates the Normative Phenomena of Morality, Ethics and Legality -- Abridged" <a href='http://ssrn.com/abstract=1542759 '>http://ssrn.com/abstract=1542759 </a>. The fifth pre-course reading "Introductory Reading For Being a Leader and the Effective Exercise of Leadership: An Ontological/Phenomenological Model" <a href='http://ssrn.com/abstract=1585976 '>http://ssrn.com/abstract=1585976</a>.