Then they learn experientially, through observation and by putting into practice what they have learned. The students put theory into practice in many ways. Small teams of students meet weekly in workshops to experience the dynamics of small group behavior through structured exercises and by taking turns as leader and group members. Students are also assigned individual exercises. By fall quarter, each student is expected to assume a leadership role in at least one student or voluntary organization.
Leaders follow many styles.
If experience is the best teacher, there are few folks around who know as much about leadership as George Shultz. Shultz has led the Bechtel Group, the University of Chicago business school, the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, and the labor, treasury, and state departments. Now at Stanford, he is the Jack Steele Parker Professor of International Economics, Emeritus, at the Business School. In his talk, Shultz drew on his own experience as a student football coach at Princeton, a World War II Marine on a beachhead in the Pacific, a scholar in a campus think tank, and secretary of state. I've always conceived a business school education as being a process of helping you learn how to learn from experience.