Course Description

As the world experiences unprecedented crises and challenges, affecting every society in every part of the planet, people are anxious for leaders to guide them through them.But what sort of leadership is necessary to face our current and future challenges? What does history teach us about the ingredients and requirements for successful, transformational leadership? How did we arrive at the point we are all at now? This course will address these core questions by focusing on leaders and leadership in particularly trying circumstances in history. How did certain women and men arrive at leadership positions? What choices and decisions did they make in difficult situations? How do we evaluate their successes or failures? What kinds of lessons can we learn from their careers? Drawing on examples from the United States,China, and around the world, the goals of the course are 1) to analyze what sort of leaders and leadership are needed to tackle the real and deepest problems facing our world, and 2) for you to become more historically-minded and reflective in thinking about leadership – your own and that of others – in a dramatically changing (and frightening) social, economic, and geopolitical landscape.

课程简介（无中文大纲，译文参考 Google 翻译）

当今世界正面临前所未有的危机和挑战，影响着地球上每个社会和每个角落。人们迫切希望有领导者能够带领他们应对这些挑战。但在当前和未来的挑战中，需要怎样的领导力？历史又能告诉我们哪些关于成功的变革型领导的要素和要求？我们是如何走到今天这一步的？本课程将围绕这些核心问题展开，重点关注历史上在特殊困境中的领导者及其领导方式。我们将探讨以下问题：某些领导者是如何走上领导岗位的？在困难的情境中，他们做出了哪些关键选择和决策？我们应如何评估他们的成功与失败？从他们的职业生涯中，我们能学到哪些有益的经验和教训？课程将以美国、中国及全球范围内的领导者为案例，旨在实现以下目标：分析应对当今世界深层次问题所需的领导者类型及其领导方式；培养学生的历史思维方式，激发对自身及他人领导力的深入反思，以适应瞬息万变且充满不确定性的社会、经济和地缘政治环境。