Second Star to the Right: Essays on Leadership in Star Trek
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'Star Trek' provides an opportunity to explore the final frontier of leadership through its nearly six decades of series and films. With its basis in Enlightenment thinking (reason coupled to compassion) and its encouragement of diversity in its myriad forms, 'Star Trek' offers guidance on how to improve the human condition that has application in leadership across academic and professional fields. Leaders are constantly called upon to solve problems, direct institutional growth, and, on occasion, even solve humanitarian crises. Leadership development need not be complicated or overly staid. It should be engaging. 'Star Trek' provides us a venue through which to make it so. This book explores the application of 'Star Trek' to the practice of leadership across a diverse array of professional and academic fields. 'Second Star to the Right: Essays on Leadership in Star Trek' provides a set of exceptional chapters from a diverse range of scientists, professionals, writers, and thinkers. It will help you to utilize the wealth of 'Star Trek' canon applied across a robust array of fields to broadly inform the practice of leadership for a better world.
ISBN
9798881903428
Publication Date
7-1-2025
Publisher
Vernon Press
City
Wilmington, Delaware
Rights Statement
In Copyright - US https://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en
Keywords
leadership, case studies, Star Trek, leadership studies, leadership development, psychology, humility, patience, compassion, relationship, diversity, equity, incusion
Disciplines
Leadership Studies
Recommended Citation
Kaufman, J. A., & Peterson, A. M. (Eds.). (2025). Second star to the right: Essays on leadership in Star Trek. Vernon Press.
