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Dangerous Leaders: How and Why Lawyers Must Be Taught to Lead
- Narrated by: Bruce Kramer
- Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
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Summary
Flint, Michigan's water crisis, the New Jersey "Bridgegate" scandal, Enron: All these incidents are examples of various forms of leadership failure. More specifically, each represents marked failures among leaders with legal training.
Dangerous Leaders exposes the risks and results of leaving lawyers unprepared to lead. It provides law schools, law students, and the legal profession with the leadership tools and models to build a better foundation of leadership acumen. Anthony C. Thompson draws from his 20 years of experience in global executive education for Fortune 100 companies and his experience as a law professor to chart a path forward for better leadership instruction within the legal academy. Using vivid, real-life case studies, Thompson explores catastrophic political, business, and legal failures that have occurred precisely because of a lapse in leadership from those with legal training. He maintains that these practices are chronic leadership failures that could have been avoided.
Thompson proposes a fundamental rethinking of legal education, based upon intersectional leadership, to prepare lawyers to assume the types of roles that our increasingly fast-paced world requires.
The book is published by Stanford University Press. The audiobook is published by University Press Audiobooks.
Critic reviews
"A compelling exploration of the role that training lawyers as civic-minded custodians of the rule of law can play in impacting the public good." (Congressman Hakeem Jeffries)
"A clear and compelling roadmap for reimagining the training of lawyers as leaders..." (Sherrilyn Ifill, President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund)
"This original book should be required reading for lawyers, law students, and legal educators." (Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean, University of California, Berkeley School of Law)