What to Ask America's Next Leader
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As voters look toward the November election and the daunting challenges facing the next president, they are finding it important to know not only where the two presumptive candidates stand on issues, but also who they are as leaders.
To help voters make this assessment the Center for Public Leadership (CPL) at Harvard Kennedy School, in association with The Ken Blanchard Companies, convened a diverse group of more than 200 people to develop questions for the candidates that get at their leadership capabilities.
On May 12th, the participants in Leadership and the Next Presidency voted on some leadership questions from panelists and came up with a comprehensive list of their own.
Using these as a foundation, CPL and The Ken Blanchard Companies have developed 15 leadership questions that urge the candidates to move beyond stock responses and sound bites.
We invite all Americans to help disseminate these questions, add their own thoughts and questions, and urge the two presidential candidates to answer them.
Click here to learn more at www.HOWYOULEAD.org.
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CPL Welcomes the 20th Class of Wexner Israel Fellows
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The Center for Public Leadership is pleased to announce the incoming class of Wexner Israel Fellows for 2008-2009.
Every year, up to ten outstanding Israeli public officials are funded to pursue a Master’s degree in Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School.
In addition to their academic curriculum, the fellows participate in a series of seminars and institutes designed to educate them about the structure of the American political system and the diversity of the American Jewish community, as well as enhance their personal leadership development.
Fellows return to Israel and invest their Harvard experience directly into the Israeli public sector.
They truly exemplify the next generation of public leaders in Israel.
Click here for the list of incoming Wexner Israel Fellows.
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New Study Finds Strong Jewish and Arab Consensus for Peaceful Coexistence in Israel
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A new study finds strong support for coexistence efforts amongst a majority of Jewish and Arab citizens of Israel. The findings may buoy hopes for long-term peace in the region.
"Coexistence in Israel: A National Study" provides a compelling snapshot of current relations between Jewish and Arab citizens in Israel as the nation celebrates its 60th anniversary. Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) associate professor Todd L. Pittinsky, research director of the school’s Center for Public Leadership (CPL), served as lead researcher on the project. The study was conducted in Hebrew and Arabic, and included 1,721 adult citizens of Israel, with assistance from researchers at the University of Haifa.
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Gleitsman Citizen Activist Award Nominations on to the Judges
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The Gleitsman Citizen Activist Award is designed to encourage individual commitment and leadership by recognizing the exceptional achievement of people who have initiated social change. The award honors activist efforts in the United States to challenge and correct social injustice.
This award is not only about recognizing those in the media spotlight. Rather, it is intended to recognize people throughout the country who have changed the way we live by embodying the ideal of courage and persistence in the face of social injustice.
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CPL Hosts a "Conversation on Leadership and the Next Presidency"
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To help move the national debate beyond slogans and sound bites, Harvard Kennedy School’s Center for Public Leadership (CPL), in partnership with The Ken Blanchard Companies, will convene a daylong conversation on leadership entitled “Leadership and the Next Presidency” on Monday, May 12th.
More than 200 leaders from the public and social sectors, corporate world, academia, and the media will gather in Cambridge, with support from the William R. Kenan, Jr. Charitable Trust and The Charles Hotel, for a program whose focus will be markedly different from many of the public discussions held so far in this presidential campaign season.
Click here to read the full release.
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Interview with Reynolds Foundation Fellow Illac Diaz (MPA/MC '08)
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Born in the Philippines, Illac Diaz is a mid-career MPA student and Reynolds Foundation Fellow at HKS, a member of the Young Global Leaders program of the World Economic Forum, and the 2006 winner of the $100K first prize in social enterprise track of MIT’s business plan competition. This spring, he and three Harvard colleagues devised a plan for a nutritional supplement company—serving developing countries and using local food source—that made it to the final round of the social enterprise track of Harvard Business School’s business plan competition.
The organization Diaz founded in the Philippines, Pier One, has provided temporary shelter and job assistance to more than 200,000 maritime workers. We sat down with him recently to discuss his most recent brainchild: an international competition to foster disaster-resistant and cost-effective architectural designs for school buildings in the developing world.
Click here to read the full interview.
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| Center for Public Leadership Starts New Year with Accolade |
The Center for Public Leadership (CPL) at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government was recently recognized by Affinity Research’s VISTA Awards for having one of the most widely read magazine pieces in 2007. The America’s Best Leader’s feature in the November 19 issue of U.S.News & World Report, a joint effort of CPL and U.S. News, was read by 86% of those surveyed, making it the third most popular piece for the fourth quarter.
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| New Social-Issues Coalition Reaches Out to Presidential Candidates |
| America Forward, a nonpartisan alliance of some 60 organizations across the country, went public last week with its call to “presidential candidates of both parties to support the innovative solutions being developed outside of Washington that achieve results in addressing America’s greatest domestic challenges.”
Cochaired by CPL director David Gergen; Vanessa Kirsch, founder and president of the social venture firm New Profit, Inc.; Timberland president and CEO Jeff Swartz; and Mark Nunnelly, managing director of Bain & Co., America Forward is looking to increase government’s awareness of and support for the efforts of social entrepreneurs working outside of government channels—often in community-based nonprofits—to address social ills and strengthen civic engagement.
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| Workshop Helps At-Risk Youth Develop Good Judgment |
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CPL and the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan sponsored an interactive workshop on judgment and decision making last week that brought 13 KSG students together with 17 teenagers from the Boston Boys and Girls Clubs, as well as some 60 local business and community leaders. Noel Tichy, a professor at the Ross School, led the workshop, which drew upon his new book, Judgment: How Winning Leaders Make Great Calls. (Tichy’s coauthor, Warren Bennis, is chairman of CPL’s Global Advisory Council.)
Describing decision making as a process, Tichy highlighted the significance of being able to recognize the critical moment before a judgment call, when swift and decisive action is essential, and also of knowing how to execute a decision after the call. To help the teens learn how to apply this framework, Tichy asked them to think of important decisions in their own lives having to do with people, strategy, and crises—three types of judgment call that are crucial to leadership. The KSG students served as coaches, helping the teens come up with questions that would illuminate the decisions they were facing.
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