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Keohane, Nannerl Overholser was born on September 18, 1940 in Blytheville, Arkansas, United States. Daughter of James Arthur and Grace (McSpadden) Overholser.
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Leadership is essential to collective human endeavor, from setting and accomplishing goals for a neighborhood block association, to running a Fortune 500 company, to mobilizing the energies of a nation. Political philosophers have focused largely on how to prevent leaders from abusing their power, yet little attention has been paid to what it actually feels like to hold power, how leaders go about their work, and how they relate to the people they lead. In Thinking about Leadership, Nannerl Keohane draws on her experience as the first woman president of Duke University and former president of Wellesley College, as well as her expertise as a leading political theorist, to deepen our understanding of what leaders do, how and why they do it, and the pitfalls and challenges they face. Keohane engages readers in a series of questions that shed light on every facet of leadership. She considers the traits that make a good leader, including sound judgment, decisiveness, integrity, social skill, and intelligence; the role that gender plays in one's ability to attain and wield power; ethics and morality; the complex relationship between leaders and their followers; and the unique challenges of democratic leadership. Rich with lessons and insights from leaders and political thinkers down through the ages, including Aristotle, Queen Elizabeth I, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Nelson Mandela, Thinking about Leadership is a must-read for current and future leaders, and for anyone concerned about our prospects for good governance.
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Nannerl O. Keohane is one of the most widely respected leaders in higher education. A political theorist who served as President of Wellesley College and Duke University, she has firsthand knowledge of the challenges facing modern universities: rising costs, the temptations of “corporatization,” consumerist students, nomadic faculty members, and a bewildering wave of new technologies. Her views on these issues and on the role and future of higher education are captured in Higher Ground, a collection of speeches and essays that she wrote over a twenty-year period. Keohane regards colleges and universities as intergenerational partnerships in learning and discovery, whose compelling purposes include not only teaching and research but also service to society. Their mission is to equip students with a moral education, not simply preparation for a career or professional school. But the modern era has presented universities and their leadership with unprecedented new challenges. Keohane worries about access to education in a world of rising costs and increasing economic inequality, and about threats to academic freedom and expressions of opinion on campus. She considers diversity as a key educational tool in our increasingly pluralistic campuses, ponders the impact of information technologies on the university’s core mission, and explores the challenges facing universities as they become more “global” institutions, serving far-flung constituencies while at the same time contributing to the cities and towns that are their institutional homes. Reflecting on the role of contemporary university leaders, Keohane asserts that while they have many problems to grapple with, they will find creative ways of dealing with them, just as their predecessors have done.
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Keohane, Nannerl Overholser was born on September 18, 1940 in Blytheville, Arkansas, United States. Daughter of James Arthur and Grace (McSpadden) Overholser.
Bachelor, Wellesley College, 1961; Bachelor, University of Oxford, England, 1963; Doctor of Philosophy, Yale University, 1967.
Faculty, Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania, 1967-1973; faculty, Stanford University, California, 1973-1981; fellow Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, 1978-1979, 87-88; president, professor political science, Wellesley (Massachusetts) College, 1981-1993; president, professor political science, Duke U., Durham, North Carolina, since 1993. Board directors International Business Machines Corporation.
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Trustee Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1988—2001, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, since 1996. Chair, since 2005; member Harvard Corporation, since 2005. Fellow: American Philosophical Society, American Academy Arts and Sciences.
Member: American Academy Achievement, Council on Foreign Relations, Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Patrick Henry III, September 16, 1962 (divorced May 1969). 1 child Stephan Henry. Married Robert Owen Keohane, December 18, 1970.
Children: Sarah, Jonathan, Nathaniel.