Leadership Lessons From The Great Books

Leadership Toolbox Podcast Network

Understanding great literature is better than trying to read and understand (yet) another business book, Leadership Lessons From The Great Books leverages insights from the GREAT BOOKS of the Western canon to explain, dissect, and analyze leadership best practices for the post-modern leader.

Episodes · 25

Order of the Day, Gen. Dwight Eisenhower - June 6, 1944 (D-Day) - 82nd Anniversary

Jun 6, 2026 · 10m

The Challenge of Human Change

Jun 2, 2026 · 11m

RE-BROADCAST - The Gulag Archipelago/One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn w/Jesan Sorrells

May 27, 2026 · 1h 18m

Resacralizing the Profane World

May 26, 2026 · 10m

Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion w/ Nicky Billou & Jesan Sorrells

May 20, 2026 · 1h 42m

Books Smuggle Ideas Across Time

May 19, 2026 · 6m

A Book of Common Prayer by Joan Didion w/Tom Libby & Jesan Sorrells

May 13, 2026 · 1h 29m

Solipsism at the Center of the Modern Mind

May 12, 2026 · 12m

The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty w/Tom Libby & Jesan Sorrells

May 6, 2026 · 1h 42m

Leadership Values

May 5, 2026 · 11m

Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky w/Hana Kabele Gala & Jesan Sorrells

Apr 29, 2026 · 2h 1m

Witnessing What You Don't Understand

Apr 28, 2026 · 11m

Invitation to a Beheading by Vladimir Nabokov w/Claire Chandler & Jesan Sorrells

Apr 22, 2026 · 1h 56m

The Problem of Recosmologizing the Rational World

Apr 21, 2026 · 8m

East of Eden by John Steinbeck w/Tom Libby & Jesan Sorrells

Apr 16, 2026 · 2h 0m

The Myth of the City

Apr 14, 2026 · 10m

Mash Up Episode ft. 12 Rules For Leaders Deep Dive - Leadership Models from Sun-Tzu to Albert Murray w/David Baumrucker & Jesan Sorrells

Apr 8, 2026 · 1h 43m

The Twilight of the Novel

Apr 7, 2026 · 8m

The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton w/Neal Kalechofsky & Jesan Sorrells

Apr 1, 2026 · 1h 59m

The Timshol, the Turpitude, and the Underground

Mar 31, 2026 · 11m

The Need for Hope

Mar 24, 2026 · 13m

The Third Man by Graham Greene w/Jesan Sorrells & Ryan J. Stout

Mar 18, 2026 · 1h 50m

Leadership in Absurd Times

Mar 17, 2026 · 16m

Oil! by Upton Sinclair w/Tom Libby & Jesan Sorrells

Mar 11, 2026 · 1h 58m

The Social Reformer and the Demon in Democracy

Mar 10, 2026 · 17m