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A Norton Anthology that illuminates how literature can help build ethically responsible leaders.What is the connection between literature and leadership? Are leaders born or are they made? Elizabeth D. Samet, the author of the award-winning Soldier's Heart and a professor of English at West Point, brings to this anthology her profound experiences as a teacher of soldiers, her discerning ear for excellent writing, and her belief in the vital role of the humanities in cultivating leaders. Great writers and thinkers in conversation -- that is what makes Samet's approach distinctive. Samet organizes the writings around the essence of leadership -- the insights, skills, and actions that effective leaders, with time and experience, learn to live by. What are these insights, skills, and actions? Newcomers to any organization must first study the system, then find and emulate models, risk change, cultivate trust, negotiate, take responsibility, learn from failure, learn to resist, innovate, discipline desire, and eventually let go.
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Elizabeth D. Samet received her BA from Harvard and her PhD in English literature from Yale. She is the author of and . Samet has been an English professor at West Point for ten years.
