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Leadership Lessons From The Great Books #32 – Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad w/Professor Moumin Quazi

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad w/Professor Moumin Quazi

  • Welcome and Introduction – 00:30
  • Why Heart of Darkness? – 08:00
  • Critiquing Chinua Achebe and “Things Fall Apart” – 18:00
  • Leaders and Identity – 20:00
  • Geography, Rivers, and Culture – 25:00
  • Leading Followers with Different Worldviews – 29:00
  • Avoiding The Seduction of Easy Answers to Hard Questions – 36:00
  • Battling Epistemological Anxiety – 39:00
  • “Fiction is Lies That Tell The Truth” – 48:00
  • Closing the Gap Between Epistemology and Objective Reality – 53:00
  • Leading Through Chattel Slavery – 52:00
  • Apocalypse Now by Francis Ford Coppola – 1:00:00
  • Get Off the Boat, Because You’re Going All The Way – 1:05:00
  • The Tension Between Technology and Nature – 1:09:00
  • What Happens When No One Is Watching – 1:17:00
  • The Man in Black: Kurtz as a Nietzschean Metaphor – 1:21:05
  • Globalization and Colonialism – 1:27:00
  • The Benefits of Closing the Gap Between Speech and Action – 1:36:00
  • Chekhov’s Gun – 1:40:00
  • Staring into the Abyss and Having it Stare back Through You – 1:54:00
  • Staying on the Path – 2:15:00