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Multiple Intelligences Around the World
by Jie-Qi Chen, Seana Moran & Howard Gardner, editors
Multiple Intelligences Around the World is a compilation
of stories from MI practitioners worldwide. Not only do
contributors address the implementation of MI theory in
their respective countries, they discuss some of the
cultural challenges they faced along the way.
This book can be pre-ordered by clicking here.
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Five Minds for the Future
Paperback Edition
Gardner's newest book, Five Minds for the
Future has been recently released in paperback
and includes a new foreword. This book
outlines the specific cognitive abilities
that will be sought and cultivated by leaders
in the years ahead: the disciplined mind, the
synthesizing mind, the creating mind, the respectful
mind, and the ethical mind.
Read a review of this book in the Financial Times.
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Visit www.edge.org to see Howard Gardner's responses to the following questions:
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- "Does the empirical nature of science contradict the revelatory nature of
faith?"
- "What game-changing scientific ideas and developments to you expect to
live to see?"
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The following questions appear in the "On Leadership" blog on
washingtonpost.com.
Unless otherwise noted, all questions have been posed by Ben Bradlee and
Steve Pearlstein. For the most up-to-date postings, click here. |
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June 22, 2009
Secretive or Successful?
Steve Jobs' insistence on keeping his recent liver transplant a secret is the latest
example of a leadership style that seems to violate all the rules in the leadership
textbook. Yet there is no doubt that he has been tremendously successful as
Apple's chief executive. Is Jobs the exception that proves--or disproves--the rules
of good leadership?
Click here for Howard Gardner's response.
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June 8, 2009
Compelling Story or Too Much Information?
Last week Barack Obama drew on his own background to reinforce his speech to
the Muslim world, while Sonia Sotomayor's comments about her ethnicity have
drawn fire. Should leaders make personal histories part of their public persona?
Click here for Howard Gardner's response. |
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May 18, 2009
What Kind of Leader for the High Court?
As President Obama seeks to steer the Supreme Court in a new direction, what
sort of leader should he look for in his first appointee? An unwavering jurist, like
Antonin Scalia, who will articulate a new liberal judicial philosophy? Or a judge
who will nudge the court from the center, like Sandra Day O'Connor, winning
over swing votes?
Click here for Howard Gardner's response. |
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May 11, 2009
Gone But Not Forgotten
Former Vice President Dick Cheney has again criticized the Obama administration,
raising the issue of the role of leaders after they step aside. Should "formers"
offer advice, praise or criticism? In public or in private? When asked or unsolicited?
Do different rules apply to public vs. private sectors?
Click here for Howard Gardner's response.
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April 27, 2009
How to Prevent Panic?
As the U.S. confronts a "potential" swine flu pandemic, which has shut down
Mexico City, how should public officials and other leaders act to prevent panic
among citizens in this country? Are there lessons from when corporations or
other organizations have confronted similarly unexpected and threatening news
in the past?
Click here for Howard Gardner's response. |
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April 20, 2009
Any Point to West Point?
Tom Ricks, the Washington Post's special military correspondent, wrote a
controversial article in Sunday's Post proposing that the three military academies
-- West Point, Annapolis, and the Air Force Academy -- be closed. Ricks'
suggestion raises the age-old question: Can leadership really be taught?
Click here for Howard Gardner's response. |
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April 6, 2009
Obama Abroad: All Soft, No Power?
In his overseas trip, President Obama was determined to show that he was the
un-Bush, compromising and conciliatory, drawing no lines in the sand. As a new
leader who is being closely watched and tested, should he have grabbed an
opportunity during that same trip to demonstrate his toughness, showing his
saber as well as his smile?
Click here for Howard Gardner's response. |
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March 30, 2009
Off With Their Heads?
The government's ouster of GM's chief, Rick Wagoner, raises the classic dilemma:
Is re moving the top leader -- irrespective of talent, culpability or the disruption it
might cause -- the best way to signal that dramatic change is imminent and
inevitable?
Click here for Howard Gardner's response.
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March 22, 2009
AIG-gate: Obama's Leadership Moment?
With Congress now on the verge of taxing away Wall Street bonuses, the
mounting outrage of AIG's bonuses and other perceived wrongdoing by
bailout recipients threatens to undermine the government's efforts to lure
private capital back into the banking system. Is this an opportunity for the new
president to show his leadership mettle by opposing the tax and trying to cool
the rhetoric, notwithstanding the political risks?
Click here for Howard Gardner's response.
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March 13, 2009
Should Coaches and Leaders Take Pay Cuts?
Posted by Sally Jenkins
At a time when the economy is in such dire straights, should highly paid college
basketball coaches, like the University of Connecticut's Jim Calhoun, be
volunteering to take pay cuts? Should leaders and executives across all sectors
be doing the same?
Click here for Howard Gardner's response. |
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March 8, 2009
Testosterone and the Crash
Would the current financial crisis have happened, or been anywhere near as
severe, if women had been in the top leadership positions on Wall Street?
Click here for Howard Gardner's response. |
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March 2, 2009
Health Reform: Top-Down or Bottom-Up?
President Obama has apparently decided not to craft his own detailed plan to
revamp the health care system, but instead lay out a set of broad principles and
the hammer out the legislation with House and Senate leaders. On a high stakes
issue like this, is it better for leaders to decide on a plan to push or to work
gradually through others?
Click here for Howard Gardner's response. |
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