Michel Foucault, one of the most cited scholars in the social
sciences, devoted his last three lectures to a study of leader
development. Going back to pagan sources, Foucault found a
persistent theme in Hellenistic antiquity that, in order to qualify
for leadership, a person must undergo processes of subjectivation,
which is simply the way that a person becomes a Subject. From this
perspective, an aspiring leader first becomes a Subject who happens
to lead. These processes depend on a condition of parresia, which
is truth-telling at great risk that is for the edification of the
other person. A leader requires a mentor and advisors in order to
lead successfully, while also developing the capacity in one's own
mind to heed the truth. In other words, a leader must learn how to
guide oneself. A valuable contribution to the field of leadership
studies, this book summarizes these last lectures as they pertain
to the study and practice of leadership, emphasizing the role of
ethics and truth-telling as a check on power. It then presents
several other contexts where these same lessons can be seen in
practice, including in the life of Alexander Solzhenitsyn, whose
career as a writer epitomized speaking truth to power, and somewhat
surprisingly in the United States military, in response to its
twenty-first century mission of counterinsurgency.
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