{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2026,8,11]],"date-time":"2026-08-11T17:37:40Z","timestamp":1786469860748,"version":"build-2736575974"},"posted":{"date-parts":[[2010]]},"group-title":"SSRN","reference-count":0,"publisher":"Elsevier BV","content-domain":{"domain":[],"crossmark-restriction":false},"short-container-title":[],"abstract":"<jats:p>What follows are instructions to access the six pdf files that contain the Pre-Course Assignments for our most recent leadership course \"Being A Leader and The Effective Exercise Of Leadership: An Ontological\/Phenomenological Model\".&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The promise of the course is to leave participants actually being leaders and exercising leadership effectively as their natural self expression, and for the course to contribute to creating a new science of leadership.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Reading 1: Primarily contains quotes selected (with permission) from Warren Bennis &amp;amp; Robert Thomas, \u201cCrucibles of Leadership\u201d (2002).&lt;br&gt;Reading 2: Is \u201cEducation as Stretching the Mind\u201d by Jamshed Bharucha (2008).&lt;br&gt;Reading 3: Is the \"Course Leadership Project Assignment Part I\".&lt;br&gt;Readings 1,2 and 3 are at this url:  &lt;a href=\"http:\/\/ssrn.com\/abstract=2416455\"&gt;http:\/\/ssrn.com\/abstract=2416455&lt;\/a&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Reading 4: \u201cIntegrity: Without It Nothing Works\u201d (an interview that serves as an introductory summary of our new model of integrity) &lt;a href=\"http:\/\/ssrn.com\/abstract=1511274\"&gt;http:\/\/ssrn.com\/abstract=1511274&lt;\/a&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Reading 5: \u201cIntegrity: A Positive Model that Incorporates the Normative Phenomena of Morality, Ethics and Legality - Abridged\u201d &lt;a href=\"http:\/\/ssrn.com\/abstract=1542759\"&gt;http:\/\/ssrn.com\/abstract=1542759&lt;\/a&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Readings 6 and 7: Introductory Reading and \u201cCourse Leadership Project\u201d Part II For&lt;br&gt;Being a Leader and The Effective Exercise of Leadership: An Ontological \/ Phenomenological Model&lt;a href=\"http:\/\/ssrn.com\/abstract=1585976\"&gt;http:\/\/ssrn.com\/abstract=1585976&lt;\/a&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Reading 8: Promises, Conditions and Rules of the Game for \u201cBeing a Leader and The Effective Exercise of Leadership: An Ontological \/ Phenomenological Model\u201d  &lt;a href=\"http:\/\/ssrn.com\/abstract=3101480\"&gt;http:\/\/ssrn.com\/abstract=3101480&lt;\/a&gt;.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Reading 9: Course Administrative Matters For \u201cBeing a Leader and the Effective Exercise of Leadership: An Ontological \/ Phenomenological Model\u201d&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=\"http:\/\/ssrn.com\/abstract=3342845\"&gt;http:\/\/ssrn.com\/abstract=3342845&lt;\/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In addition to the pre-course readings above, the full set of course materials including the Slide-Deck Textbook and other course materials for the most current Leadership Course can be found at:&lt;br&gt;Course Materials for: Being a Leader and the Effective Exercise of Leadership - An Ontological\/Phenomenological Model (by Erhard, Jensen, Zaffron and Granger) &lt;a href=\"http:\/\/ssrn.com\/abstract=1263835\"&gt;http:\/\/ssrn.com\/abstract=1263835&lt;\/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;If you are interested in reading about the teaching method used in this course please see our Chapter 16 in: Scott Snook, Nitin Nohria, Rakesh Khurana, Editors \"The Handbook For Teaching Leadership\" Sage Publications, 2011: &lt;a href=\"http:\/\/ssrn.com\/abstract=1681682\"&gt;http:\/\/ssrn.com\/abstract=1681682&lt;\/a&gt;<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.2139\/ssrn.1622671","type":"posted-content","created":{"date-parts":[[2012,11,22]],"date-time":"2012-11-22T09:48:39Z","timestamp":1353577719000},"source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":3,"title":["Directory of the Pre-Course Readings for the Course \u2018Being a Leader and the Effective Exercise of Leadership: An Ontological\/Phenomenological Model\u2019, Texas A&amp;amp;M University, USA, June 2010"],"prefix":"10.2139","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0002-2046-4999","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"Werner","family":"Erhard","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Michael C.","family":"Jensen (Deceased)","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Steve","family":"Zaffron","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Kari L.","family":"Zeller","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"78","container-title":[],"original-title":[],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2026,8,11]],"date-time":"2026-08-11T16:49:21Z","timestamp":1786466961000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/www.ssrn.com\/abstract=1622671"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2010]]},"references-count":0,"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.2139\/ssrn.1622671","relation":{},"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2010]]},"subtype":"preprint"}}