Description
This course evaluates the primary tenets of social (relational) and political (negotiated power) capital and how they create and sustain communities' capacities for individuals and collectives with limited resources and competing interests to thrive. The course explores how networks of relationships and power structures are strategic and tactical assets that moderate leadership outcomes, captured in the familiar aphorism, "It's not what you know; it's who you know that matters." Students will explore leadership from the social and political lens and evaluate how to judiciously create, nurture, and leverage social and political capital to promote human flourishing, optimize the performance of interdependent collectives, and establish just policies.