| Gleitsman Citizen Activist Award Nominations Due May 15th |
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.
Submit your nominee online today.
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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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| Kellerman, Bennis, George Rank Among Top Leadership Gurus |
| Barbara Kellerman, Warren Bennis, and Bill George have been ranked among the top leadership experts in the world by Leadership Excellence magazine.
Ken Shelton, the magazine’s editor, rated the top 100 leadership gurus using the following eight criteria: preparation, character, principles (the guru’s main tenets or primary message), personality, performance, experience, expression (substance as well as style in speaking, writing, lecturing, and coaching), and influence. Kellerman, the James MacGregor Burns Lecturer in Public Leadership at the Kennedy School and author of the upcoming book Followership, was ranked sixth. Bennis, one of the pioneers of the field of leadership studies and cochair of CPL’s Academic Advisory Committee, came in at No. 4. George, professor of management practice at Harvard Business School and author of the bestselling book True North: Discover Your Authentic Leadership, was ranked 22nd.
Leadership Excellence is published by Executive Excellence, a 22-year-old training and publishing firm based in Provo, Utah. To see the entire list of the top leadership 100 experts, go to: www.eep.com/Merchant/newsite/best_100.html
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