Business Education Needs Great Literature: Teaching Leadership Through Literature

Leadership, pedagogy, critical leadership studies

Learn how to use literature, both fiction and nonfiction, as a way to delve into the complexity of leadership, enabling learners to move beyond thinking of leaders as “heroic” and into a paradigm that understands leaders as dynamic, human and fallible. Literature can be used as a once-off project or drawn on to create an entire course on leadership. By using novels and biographies students are able to step into the lives of a diverse set of leaders, think through difficult decisions and reflect on what it means to be a leader.

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