One talk that none of my classmates blogged is Partha Gosh's talk on Leadership. Gosh was invited last Wednesday to the SDM business trip to talk about leadership. I had attended Gosh's talk on leadership that was part of my TPP curriculum a month ago and even blogged about it. Like before, I enjoyed his talk on leadership last week. I like like the spiritual and human value of what he was trying to bring to the table. Likewise, my TPP classmates like him so much that we invited Gosh back for more lectures on leadership development. Conversely, the reaction from my SDM classmates were mixed. I surveyed the class about the lecture and for those who responded, half of them liked the talk and the half didn't. One of my classmates said: "Why would I want to learn leadership from someone whom I won't want to follow?" That was an interesting quote because here is a bigger question: Should people who teach leadership exude presence and inspiration? True, Gosh's talk that night was a little dry and slow. Indeed, I think that it is much harder to talk about leadership to a group of people who are more mature and has significant professional experience than a cohort of students with the majority who are in their early twenties. Anyway, those are my observations. Oh, time to go for a run...

10/30/2005 4:52:48 PM (Eastern Standard Time, UTC-05:00)

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