Introduction to Ancient Greek History (CLCV 205)

In this lecture, Professor Donald Kagan examines the developments that took place after the Greek victory over the Persians in 479 BC. He argues that even after the Greek victories, there was great fear amongst the Greeks that the Persians would return to seek revenge. For this reason, many of the Greek poleis, especially the islands, looked to Athens to lead this league, which later became the Delian League. Athens, according to Professor Kagan, accepted this responsibility, since it too feared a Persian invasion, but Sparta was content to retreat into the Peloponesus. Finally, Professor Kagan intimates that this league would eventually turn into the Athenian empire.

00:00 - Chapter 1. Consequences of Greek Victory over the Persians
21:21 - Chapter 2. The Athenian-Spartan Alliance and Pan-hellenism
29:52 - Chapter 3. Athens as an Independent Player
37:05 - Chapter 4. Resentment in Sparta
46:37 - Chapter 5. Understanding the Formation of the Delian League
01:06:20 - Chapter 6. The Rise of the Athenian Empire

Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website: http://open.yale.edu/courses

This course was recorded in Fall 2007.

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When your personal purpose lines up with your organization's purpose, leadership becomes more authentic and energizing. This lesson shows how to map your individual purpose, values, and vision against a team or organization to find overlap and articulate how you want to lead.

Key topics:
- Connecting individual purpose to team or organizational purpose
- Bringing personal values and impact statements into the workbook
- The via.org personality survey as a self-discovery tool
- Side-by-side comparison of personal and organizational purpose
- Defining how you want to lead in the overlap area
- Integrating layers of self and team via the map analogy

📚 About the Course:

This course is designed to maximize your ability to create change at the individual, team and system levels. Through study, reflection, and deploying practical tools, you will establish a firm connection between your clearly articulated Purpose, effective Priorities, visualized Potential for success, and pathway to maximized Progress. But, what does that mean in practice?

When you take this course, you will:

Improve your ability to get the most out of life: Learn a simple practice to reflect on your purpose, clarify priorities, visualize your potential, and maximize your effectiveness at progressing towards your goals.

Strengthen your leadership toolkit: Tap into your unique leadership style and strengths and join or create a community of others to maximize your potential as a team.

Create change through systems thinking: Become a more effective agent of positive change and appreciate the power and complexity of system thinking.

Course Takeaways:
Improve your ability to get the most out of life
Strengthen your leadership toolkit
Practice and apply systems thinking to plan for change

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If the rocks-in-a-jar analogy doesn't land for you, here are alternatives that keep the same underlying insight. Explore sweet treats, a baby's mobile, a planted yard of oak trees, and packing a boat down a river to find an image that resonates.

Key topics:
- Preserving the three-to-five priority insight
- Sweet treats and candy as a softer analogy
- A baby's mobile with three to five arms
- An oak-tree yard with bushes and grass
- Packing a small boat down Dalio's river of time
- Using emotional power when you name your priorities

📚 About the Course:

This course is designed to maximize your ability to create change at the individual, team and system levels. Through study, reflection, and deploying practical tools, you will establish a firm connection between your clearly articulated Purpose, effective Priorities, visualized Potential for success, and pathway to maximized Progress. But, what does that mean in practice?

When you take this course, you will:

Improve your ability to get the most out of life: Learn a simple practice to reflect on your purpose, clarify priorities, visualize your potential, and maximize your effectiveness at progressing towards your goals.

Strengthen your leadership toolkit: Tap into your unique leadership style and strengths and join or create a community of others to maximize your potential as a team.

Create change through systems thinking: Become a more effective agent of positive change and appreciate the power and complexity of system thinking.

Course Takeaways:
Improve your ability to get the most out of life
Strengthen your leadership toolkit
Practice and apply systems thinking to plan for change

📺 Watch the full playlist on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLh9mgdi4rNezZEnhZC8dS3AvTnzOiB0Ij

🎓 Enroll on Coursera for assessments and a certificate: https://www.coursera.org/learn/connected-leadership

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Introduction to Political Philosophy (PLSC 114)

With the emergence of democracies in Europe and the New World at the beginning of the nineteenth century, political philosophers began to re-evaluate the relationship between freedom and equality. Tocqueville, in particular, saw the creation of new forms of social power that presented threats to human liberty. His most famous work, Democracy in America, was written for his French countrymen who were still devoted to the restoration of the monarchy and whom Tocqueville wanted to convince that the democratic social revolution he had witnessed in America was equally representative of France's future.

00:00 - Chapter 1. Tocqueville's Problem
08:36 - Chapter 2. Who Was Alexis de Tocqueville?
14:04 - Chapter 3. Democracy in America and the Letter to Kergolay
35:46 - Chapter 4. The CharacterIstics of American Democracy: Importance of Local Government

Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website: http://open.yale.edu/courses

This course was recorded in Fall 2006.

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Your purpose, impact statement, and team strategy pyramid already hint at the system you care about. Use this exercise to surface a system you want to learn about or change, anchored in the personal why you've developed through the course.

Key topics:
- Revisiting the purpose worksheet for system clues
- Mining your impact statement for bigger ideas
- Vision and mission as system signals
- Choosing a system you care deeply about
- Purpose as the connective tissue across self, team, and system

📚 About the Course:

This course is designed to maximize your ability to create change at the individual, team and system levels. Through study, reflection, and deploying practical tools, you will establish a firm connection between your clearly articulated Purpose, effective Priorities, visualized Potential for success, and pathway to maximized Progress. But, what does that mean in practice?

When you take this course, you will:

Improve your ability to get the most out of life: Learn a simple practice to reflect on your purpose, clarify priorities, visualize your potential, and maximize your effectiveness at progressing towards your goals.

Strengthen your leadership toolkit: Tap into your unique leadership style and strengths and join or create a community of others to maximize your potential as a team.

Create change through systems thinking: Become a more effective agent of positive change and appreciate the power and complexity of system thinking.

Course Takeaways:
Improve your ability to get the most out of life
Strengthen your leadership toolkit
Practice and apply systems thinking to plan for change

📺 Watch the full playlist on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLh9mgdi4rNezZEnhZC8dS3AvTnzOiB0Ij

🎓 Enroll on Coursera for assessments and a certificate: https://www.coursera.org/learn/connected-leadership

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The American Novel Since 1945 (ENGL 291)

In this second lecture on The Known World, Professor Hungerford addresses Edward P. Jones's ambitious and ambivalent relation to literacy. Jones shows us the power of narrative to bring together the fragmentation of the world, but is at the same time deeply aware of the fragility of text, all of the ways it can be destroyed, misinterpreted, abused, or lost. The son of an illiterate mother, Jones--who, it seems, composed and memorized large portions of The Known World before setting anything down in print--models a form of literary self-consciousness infused with the moral dilemmas of slavery and freedom that is unique among contemporary novels.

00:00 - Chapter 1. Meditations on the Difficulty of Writing: The Right-to-Left Directionality of Creation
13:43 - Chapter 2. The Fragile Power of Text: Insubstantiality of Freedom
20:45 - Chapter 3. The Complicity of Creation
24:58 - Chapter 4. The Durability of Plastic Arts: Augustus's Carving and Alice's Weaving
33:32 - Chapter 5. Edward P. Jones's Authorial Project: Weaving Unity into the Fragmented Modern Narrative

Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website: http://open.yale.edu/courses

This course was recorded in Spring 2008.

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Why does your system exist, and what really drives it? Apply the ladder of inference and the iceberg model to climb above assumptions and descend below the surface events to reveal patterns, structures, and the deepest beliefs that shape your system.

Key topics:
- The ladder of inference and bringing other voices in
- The iceberg model: events, patterns, structure, mental models
- Mapping your system across the four iceberg layers
- A common cold example of going deeper
- Causal loops and the chicken-crossing-the-road system

📚 About the Course:

This course is designed to maximize your ability to create change at the individual, team and system levels. Through study, reflection, and deploying practical tools, you will establish a firm connection between your clearly articulated Purpose, effective Priorities, visualized Potential for success, and pathway to maximized Progress. But, what does that mean in practice?

When you take this course, you will:

Improve your ability to get the most out of life: Learn a simple practice to reflect on your purpose, clarify priorities, visualize your potential, and maximize your effectiveness at progressing towards your goals.

Strengthen your leadership toolkit: Tap into your unique leadership style and strengths and join or create a community of others to maximize your potential as a team.

Create change through systems thinking: Become a more effective agent of positive change and appreciate the power and complexity of system thinking.

Course Takeaways:
Improve your ability to get the most out of life
Strengthen your leadership toolkit
Practice and apply systems thinking to plan for change

📺 Watch the full playlist on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLh9mgdi4rNezZEnhZC8dS3AvTnzOiB0Ij

🎓 Enroll on Coursera for assessments and a certificate: https://www.coursera.org/learn/connected-leadership

🌐 Explore more learning opportunities on Yale Online: https://online.yale.edu/courses/connected-leadership

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Introduction to Political Philosophy (PLSC 114)

In the Apology, Socrates proposes a new kind of citizenship in opposition to the traditional one that was based on the poetic conception of Homer. Socrates' is a philosophical citizenship, relying on one's own powers of independent reason and judgment. The Crito, a dialogue taking place in Socrates' prison cell, is about civil obedience, piety, and the duty of every citizen to respect and live by the laws of the community.

00:00 - Chapter 1. Was Socrates Guilty or Innocent?
02:22 - Chapter 2. The Socratic Citizen
09:39 - Chapter 3. Principled DIsobedience to the Law
24:07 - Chapter 4. Crito's Apology: "Companion Dialogue"
42:22 - Chapter 5. Applying Lessons from Fourth-Century Athens to Our World Today

Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website: http://open.yale.edu/courses

This course was recorded in Fall 2006.

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Introduction to Political Philosophy (PLSC 114)

Hobbes' most famous metaphor, that of "the state of nature," is explained. It can be understood as the condition of human life in the absence of authority or anyone to impose rules, laws, and order. The concept of the individual is also discussed on Hobbesian terms, according to which the fundamental characteristics of the human beings are the capacity to exercise will and the ability to choose. Hobbes, as a moralist, concludes that the laws of nature, or "precepts of reason," forbid us from doing anything destructive in life.

00:00 - Chapter 1. Hobbes on Individuality
09:49 - Chapter 2. Hobbes' Skeptical View of Knowledge
14:11 - Chapter 3. The State of Nature
23:14 - Chapter 4. Pride and Fear: Passions that Dominate Human Nature
29:09 - Chapter 5. The Laws of Nature

Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website: http://open.yale.edu/courses

This course was recorded in Fall 2006.

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Discover how the four Ps of connected leadership scale from self and team to the wider systems that shape our lives. This introduction defines what a system is, why systems thinking matters, and how it equips you to tackle problems too complex for simple linear fixes.

Key topics:
- Applying the four Ps at the system level
- Defining a system as interacting elements with a shared purpose
- Examples of community, industry, explicit, and implicit systems
- Why systems thinking matters for tackling big challenges
- Humility, leverage, and the power of small changes over time

📚 About the Course:

This course is designed to maximize your ability to create change at the individual, team and system levels. Through study, reflection, and deploying practical tools, you will establish a firm connection between your clearly articulated Purpose, effective Priorities, visualized Potential for success, and pathway to maximized Progress. But, what does that mean in practice?

When you take this course, you will:

Improve your ability to get the most out of life: Learn a simple practice to reflect on your purpose, clarify priorities, visualize your potential, and maximize your effectiveness at progressing towards your goals.

Strengthen your leadership toolkit: Tap into your unique leadership style and strengths and join or create a community of others to maximize your potential as a team.

Create change through systems thinking: Become a more effective agent of positive change and appreciate the power and complexity of system thinking.

Course Takeaways:
Improve your ability to get the most out of life
Strengthen your leadership toolkit
Practice and apply systems thinking to plan for change

📺 Watch the full playlist on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLh9mgdi4rNezZEnhZC8dS3AvTnzOiB0Ij

🎓 Enroll on Coursera for assessments and a certificate: https://www.coursera.org/learn/connected-leadership

🌐 Explore more learning opportunities on Yale Online: https://online.yale.edu/courses/connected-leadership

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