Second Star to the Right: Essays on Leadership in Star TrekJason A. Kaufman, Aaron M. Peterson, Scott Allison, Derek Tyler Attico, James Beggan, Claude Berube, Bradley O. Browne, Bradley Stewart Chilton, Michael Dismuke, Kelli Fitzpatrick, Jim Johnson, James LeDuc, Scott Maravilla, Drew Nichols, David Smith, Jason von Stietz, Sebastian Stoppe, Emily Strand, Laurie Ulster, Michael Wong 'Star Trek' provides an opportunity to explore the final frontier of leadership through its nearly six decades of series and films. With its basis in Enlightenment thinking (reason coupled to compassion) and its encouragement of diversity in its myriad forms, 'Star Trek' offers guidance on how to improve the human condition that has application in leadership across academic and professional fields. Leaders are constantly called upon to solve problems, direct institutional growth, and, on occasion, even solve humanitarian crises. Leadership development need not be complicated or overly staid. It should be engaging. 'Star Trek' provides us a venue through which to make it so. This book explores the application of 'Star Trek' to the practice of leadership across a diverse array of professional and academic fields. 'Second Star to the Right: Essays on Leadership in Star Trek' provides a set of exceptional chapters from a diverse range of scientists, professionals, writers, and thinkers. It will help you to utilize the wealth of 'Star Trek' canon applied across a robust array of fields to broadly inform the practice of leadership for a better world. |
Contents
Chapter | 3 |
Chapter Three | 23 |
Chapter Five | 53 |
Chapter | 71 |
Chapter Eight | 89 |
Chapter Nine | 109 |
Chapter | 125 |
Chapter Eleven | 139 |
Chapter Twelve | 155 |
Chapter Thirteen | 171 |
Chapter Fourteen | 187 |
Chapter Fifteen | 203 |
Chapter Sixteen | 217 |
Chapter Eighteen | 237 |
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