Second Star to the Right: Essays on Leadership in Star Trek (Cinema and Culture) - Hardcover

Allison, Scott; Attico, Derek Tyler; Beggan, James; Berube, Claude; Browne, Bradley O.; Chilton, Bradley Stewart; Dismuke, Michael; Fitzpatrick, Kelli; Johnson, Jim; Kaufman, Jason A.; LeDuc, James; Maravilla, Scott; Nichols, Drew; Peterson, Aaron M.; Smith, David; Stietz, Jason Von; Stoppe, Sebastian; Strand, Emily; Ulster, Laurie; Wong, Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 13: 9798881902995

Publisher: Vernon Press, 2025

Synopsis

'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.

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About the Author

Jason A. Kaufman is a professor of educational leadership and director of the institutional review board at Minnesota State University, Mankato and a licensed psychologist. He is a co-author of 'Leadership in Star Trek: Lessons from the Captain's Chair'. He is also co-host of the 'Dice in Mind' podcast. Jason's research agenda is loosely bifurcated among two partially overlapping foci. On the empirical front, he focuses on the potential for mind-body and nature-based interventions to promote human functioning. However, his most recent papers have been policy papers regarding the exploration of space. Concurrently, Jason has been writing with his friend and colleague, Aaron Peterson, on the potential of 'Star Trek' to promote a better world through leadership. Aaron M. Peterson is an assistant professor of leadership at Converse University. He is a co-author of 'Leadership in Star Trek: Lessons from the Captain's Chair'. Aaron's research agenda focuses primarily on the process of conflict engagement in higher education as well as other sectors. He also explores leadership best practices in higher education and other arenas. This latter focus has really come into better focus as Aaron has been writing with his friend and colleague, Jason Kaufman, on the merits of 'Star Trek' to promote a better world through leadership.

Edition details

• Publisher: Vernon Press
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798881902995
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 280
• Editor: Kaufman Jason A., Peterson Aaron M.