MIT Portugal | University of Minho, Social School of Engineering

Seminar Series on Leadearship

The Lion, the Fox and the Owl: Figures of Leadership in Political Philosophy from the Renaissance

Friday, November 10th, 2017 | 14h30, room A3.016 (Campus of Azurém)

Speaker

João Cardoso Rosas (CEPS, Universidade do Minho)

Summary

This lecture draws on the political thought of the early 16th century in Italy and England to illustrate three types of leadership that we can represent metaphorically by the animal figures mentioned in the title. A political leader, like a leader in any other organisational context, can be fierce like the lion, cunning like the fox or wise like the owl, or they can be several of these things, depending on the circumstances.