Sharon Daloz Parks

Leadership Can Be Taught uses Havard Leadership "virtuoso" Ronald Heifetz dynamic leadership teaching model that he uses in his classroom. This unique approach utilizes students' own experiences and the classroom itself into a "studio-laboratory" for working through problems and challenges people will actualy face in today's workplace. This book teaches leadership as mobilizing people to make progress through the tough adaptive challenges that make or break communities, organizations, and show more socities.

Recommended for a way to teach leadership, using both students past experiences and through classroom techniques. show less

In Big Questions, Worthy Dreams, Sharon Parks reexamines the twenty-something years and shows how crucial it is to create mentoring environments that recognize, support, challenge, and inspire the promise of young adult lives.

"Author Sharon Daloz Parks is an associate director and member of the faculty at the Whidbey Institute, near Seattle. She's held faculty and senior research positions at Harvard Divinity School, Harvard Business School [and other prestigious schools. She is coauthor of two other books in this subject area]." Source: The book's back cover. James I. Cash Jr., professor and senior associate dean, Harvard Business School, said of this work, "I have spent the last thirty years, over half my life, show more devoted to the education of development of young adults. This book is a must-read for anyone who is focused on this age group. I wish I had read this at the beginning of my career as an educator." show less

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