Need texts about Leadership (1 Viewer)

[cssftw]

Hi guys,

For an English assignment, our current topic for our AOS is "Leadership", and for the assignment we were asked to find 5 texts reflecting the concept of leadership.

Currently i've chosen the 2008 film Valkyrie, however I cannot think of any other possible texts.

Can anyone suggest some really good texts i.e. novels, another film, poems etc??

 

[supercalamari]

Umm...
Maybe...
Remember The Titans?
A Few Good Men
The Brave One

 

[jarkler]

Startup Nation

 

[alcalder]

Check out this website:

Youthleadership.com - Resources for Preparing A New Generation of Everyday Leaders

And these:
1. Moby Dick (Melville): Captain Ahab can teach us a thing or two everything about vision as it relates to leadership.
2. Catch-22 (Heller): If Heller didn’t invent and define the phrase “Catch-22″ modern organizations would have.
3. Dead Souls (Gogol): How do you go about buying the ’souls’ of dead peasants for a personal profit? You need good sales skills…to say the least.
5. Walden (Thoreau): Keep it simple, stupid.
4. For Whom the Bell Tolls (Hemingway): Protagonist Robert Johnson has to get people on his side in the heat of the Spanish American War.
5. Waiting For Godot (Beckett): The sparse play leaves room for many interpretations, but those in the business world will be all to familiar with the waiting game and it’s implications.
6. Lucky Jim (Amis): Aspirations aren’t easy to have, especially when you can’t stomach your organization and the culture it espouses.
7. Cat’s Cradle (Vonnegut): Do organizations secretly practice Bokononism?
9. Lord of the Flies (Golding): A power struggle during chaotic times will put [organizational] culture on the back burner. “Have you got any matches?” (Chapter 2)
10. The Naked and the Dead (Miller): Set in Japan during World War II, Miller shows us that morals and motives can’t be perfect.