Leadership Lessons From The Great Books

By Leadership Toolbox Podcast Network

Listen to a podcast, please open Podcast Republic app. Available on Google Play Store and Apple App Store.


Category: Philosophy

Open in Apple Podcasts


Open RSS feed


Open Website


Rate for this podcast

Subscribers: 3
Reviews: 0
Episodes: 100

Description

Understanding great literature is better than trying to read and understand (yet) another business book, Leadership Lessons From The Great Books leverages insights from the GREAT BOOKS of the Western canon to explain, dissect, and analyze leadership best practices for the post-modern leader.

Episode Date
Shorts #207 - Leadership Models for Restoration
Jan 27, 2026
"The Great Instauration" by Francis Bacon w/Brian Bagley & Jesan Sorrells
Jan 21, 2026
Shorts #206 - Restoration after Chaos - Exiting the Fourth Turning
Jan 20, 2026
Candide by Francois Voltaire w/Tom Libby & Jesan Sorrells
Jan 14, 2026
Shorts #205 - Why Smart Leaders Read Voltaire Instead of HBR
Jan 13, 2026
TRAILER - Season Five - Literate Leaders Restore The Chaotic World
Jan 07, 2026
Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis w/Christen Blair Horne & Jesan Sorrells
Dec 31, 2025
RE-BROADCAST - The Book of Matthew - Christmas Day Message
Dec 26, 2025
RE-BROADCAST - A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens w/Tom Libby
Dec 24, 2025
RE-BROADCAST - A Burglar's Christmas by Willa Cather w/Tom Libby
Dec 17, 2025
Shorts # 205 - Christmas Memories Don't All Match Up...
Dec 16, 2025
RE-BROADCAST - At Christmas Time by Anton Chekhov w/Jesan Sorrells
Dec 10, 2025
Shorts #204 - The Reason for the Season
Dec 09, 2025
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway w/Jesan Sorrells & Libby Unger
Dec 03, 2025
Shorts #203 - Leading Through the Holiday Season
Dec 02, 2025
BONUS - The 1789 Thanksgiving Day Proclamation by President George Washington
Nov 27, 2025
The Earth is all That Lasts by Mark Lee Gardner w/Tom Libby & Jesan Sorrells
Nov 26, 2025
Shorts #202 - An Appeal to My Generation...
Nov 25, 2025
The Earth is all That Lasts by Mark Lee Gardner (Introduction) w/Jesan Sorrells
Nov 19, 2025
Shorts #201 - The Conditions That Make War
Nov 18, 2025
War by Sebastian Junger w/ John Hill aka "Small Mtn" & Jesan Sorrells
Nov 12, 2025
Shorts #200 - Not Tripping and Falling Into the Hype Cycle
Nov 11, 2025
Leadership Lessons From The Great Books (Bonus) - Veteran's Day Message
Nov 11, 2025
War by Sebastian Junger (Introduction) w/Jesan Sorrells
Nov 06, 2025
Shorts #199 - Laying Down Your Life for Your Friends
Nov 04, 2025
The First World War by John Keegan w/Tom Libby & Jesan Sorrells
Oct 29, 2025
Shorts #198 - A Taxonomy of Practices
Oct 28, 2025
The First World War by John Keegan (Introduction) w/Jesan Sorrells
Oct 22, 2025
Shorts # 197 - Aphorisms that Don't Mean Anything
Oct 21, 2025
Why Don't We Learn From History by B.H.Liddell Hart w/Tom Libby & Jesan Sorrells
Oct 15, 2025
Shorts #196 - Abundance is a Deception
Oct 14, 2025
Why Don't We Learn From History by B.H. Liddell Hart - Introduction - w/Jesan Sorrells
Oct 08, 2025
Shorts #195 - Pride and Reckonings
Oct 07, 2025
Mash Up Episode ft. Why We Don't Learn from History, Empire of the Summer Moon, and a Late Summer Wrap-Up w/Tom Libby & Jesan Sorrells
Oct 01, 2025
Shorts #194 - History Binds Us Whether We Like it or Not
Sep 30, 2025
The Time Machine by H.G. Wells - w/ Christen Blair Horne and Jesan Sorrells
Sep 24, 2025
Shorts #193 - War is the Father of us All
Sep 23, 2025
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury - w/ Jesan Sorrells and Ryan J. Stout
Sep 17, 2025
Shorts #192 - Charlie Kirk
Sep 16, 2025
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury - Introduction w/ Jesan Sorrells
Sep 10, 2025
Shorts # 191 - Books Change Us...If We Let Them...
Sep 09, 2025
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein w/ John Hill and Jesan Sorrells
Sep 03, 2025
Shorts #190 - Sincerity
Sep 02, 2025
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein - Introduction w/ Jesan Sorrells
Aug 28, 2025
Shorts #189 - On Ripping off Ukrainian Nationalists
Aug 26, 2025
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick w/ John Hill and Jesan Sorrells
Aug 20, 2025
Shorts #188 - SciFi Failures
Aug 19, 2025
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick - Introduction w/ Jesan Sorrells
Aug 13, 2025
Shorts #187 - Customer Service is Dead
Aug 12, 2025
Mash Up Episode ft. Lord of the Rings, All Quiet on the Western Front and Pink Floyd w/Neal Kalechofsky & Jesan Sorrells
Aug 05, 2025
Sitting Bull: His Life and Legacy by Ernie LaPointe (Part Two) w/Tom Libby & Jesan Sorrells
Jul 30, 2025
Shorts - #186 - Leadership Transformation is on the Horizon
Jul 29, 2025
The Federalist Papers, The Constitution and Supreme Court Wrap-Up 2024-2025 w/ Dorollo Nixon, Esq & Jesan Sorrells
Jul 23, 2025
Shorts #185 - Trolling a CEO
Jul 22, 2025
Animal Farm by George Orwell w/Tom Libby and Jesan Sorrells
Jul 16, 2025
Shorts #184 - Coaching Fundamentals
Jul 15, 2025
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil by Hannah Arendt - w/Tom Libby and Jesan Sorrells
Jul 09, 2025
Shorts #183 - Trade-Offs
Jul 08, 2025
The Declaration of Independence by Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and John Adams, July 4, 1776
Jul 04, 2025
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil by Hannah Arendt - Introduction w/Jesan Sorrells
Jul 02, 2025
Shorts #182 - Mr. Jones and Meritocracy
Jul 01, 2025
1984 by George Orwell - Part One w/David Baumrucker, Claire Chandler, Tom Libby & Jesan Sorrells (BONUS EPISODE)
Jul 01, 2025
1984 by George Orwell - Part One w/David Baumrucker, Claire Chandler, Tom Libby & Jesan Sorrells
Jun 25, 2025
Shorts #181 - Human Traits
Jun 24, 2025
1984 by George Orwell - Introduction w/Jesan Sorrells
Jun 18, 2025
Shorts #180 - What a Vibe Shift Looks Like
Jun 17, 2025
The Art of War by Sun-Tzu (Translated by Thomas Cleary) w/Jesan Sorrells & Zac Stucki
Jun 11, 2025
Shorts #179 - Apocalypse for all Seasons
Jun 10, 2025
Leadership Lessons From The Great Books (Bonus) - D-Day Message
Jun 06, 2025
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald - Part Two w/Tom Libby
Jun 04, 2025
Shorts #178 - Critical Thinking Skills
Jun 03, 2025
RE-BROADCAST - Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston w/Tom Libby
May 28, 2025
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald (Part One) w/Libby Unger
May 21, 2025
Shorts #177 - Climbing from Values to Vision
May 20, 2025
Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald - Introduction w/Jesan Sorrells
May 14, 2025
Shorts #176 - On the Unserious Among Us
May 13, 2025
AI Hallucinations, Business Lessons in 90 Days, and A Voice Crying in the Wilderness with Tom Libby
May 07, 2025
Shorts #175 - The Insignificance of Work
May 06, 2025
Shorts #174 - The End of the Enlightenment
Apr 29, 2025
Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford w/Libby Unger
Apr 24, 2025
RE-BROADCAST - The Tragedy of King Lear by William Shakespeare w/Libby Unger
Apr 16, 2025
Shorts #173 - Once to Die...
Apr 15, 2025
Considering Genius: Writings on Jazz by Stanley Crouch
Apr 09, 2025
Shorts #172 - The Book of Judges
Apr 08, 2025
The Collected Poetry of Ogden Nash w/Ryan J. Stout
Apr 02, 2025
Shorts #171 - We Must Come to Grips with Endings
Apr 01, 2025
The Count of Monte Cristo - Part 2 by Alexandre Dumas w/Christen Blair Horne
Mar 26, 2025
Shorts #170 - Great Men of History
Mar 25, 2025
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Mar 19, 2025
Shorts #169 - They That Make Them Are Like Unto Them
Mar 18, 2025
The Hand That Rocks the Cradle is the Hand That Leads the World...
Mar 12, 2025
Shorts #168 - Our Eyes Are Watching the First Turning
Mar 11, 2025
BONUS - Interview with Brian Morgan - Think Deeply, Write Clearly
Mar 05, 2025
The Omni-Americans by Albert L. Murray w/Tom Libby
Feb 26, 2025
Shorts #167 - Feelings Strike Back
Feb 25, 2025
BONUS - The Storyteller - Reflections on the Works of Nikolai Leskov by Walter Benjamin
Feb 19, 2025
Shorts #166 - Wisdom from all the Wrong Places
Feb 18, 2025
Soul on Ice by Eldridge Cleaver w/Dorollo Nixon
Feb 12, 2025
Shorts #165 - Resist or Obey
Feb 11, 2025
Confessions of an Advertising Man by David Ogilvy w/Chris Widner and John Hill aka Small Mountain
Feb 06, 2025