A leadership scholar talks about the essential qualities of a leader and how complexity keeps humanity moving forward.
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A leadership scholar talks about the essential qualities of a leader and how complexity keeps humanity moving forward.
We are currently working on curating this profile page. In the meantime, please see Richard Couto’s full oral history.
“An effective leader inspires others to take their own initiative, not follow, but to take their own initiative”
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“I talked to my father once about wanting to be a copilot when I grew up and he said ‘why not a pilot?’ Those are the kinds of questions my father would ask. ”
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“The job description was just – I mean I couldn’t believe it. The school was aimed at the moral, as well as the cognitive development of students, a heavy emphasis on experiential education, interdisciplinary.”
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Before receiving his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Kentucky in 1974, Richard Couto spent several years as a Roman Catholic Brother. Couto held a number of university appointments, including:
Couto published 14 books and 73 articles and book chapters between 1975 and 2015, ranging from community empowerment and civic engagement, leadership, and service learning and public scholarship—which he developed and promoted before those practices became widespread. He won numerous awards, including:
“I think you can learn to be a leader and I think it’s a learned talent. But the motivation to learn it is, it has to be there, so maybe that’s innate.”
“One of the primary reasons I write is to give voice to people who I think have a very interesting story that touches on the heart of who we think we are as Americans.”