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LOST Lessons of Servant Leadership: What the Island Taught Me About Heroic Character

Saturday, July 16, 2011

Curiously, one of the most influential aspects of LOST in my own life is its unique insight into the nature of servant leadership. One of the key storylines of LOST’s first season is the tension between Jack (Matthew Fox) and Sawyer (Josh Holloway) for leadership of the small band of plane crash survivors desperately seeking to balance the twin goals of survival and rescue.

Learning from the Best: An Interview with TV and Screenwriter, Chris Easterly

Friday, April 15, 2011

TV and screenwriter Chris Easterly is a graduate of the Act One screen and television writing program and the prestigious Warner Brothers Writers Workshop. He has written for Cartoon Network’s first live-action mystery adventure series Unnatural History, as well the screenplay for Click Clack Jack, and a new project, The Shunning premiering tomorrow night (Saturday [...]

Monica Macer, Writer for LOST, Prison Break, Teen Wolf, Shares Her Inspiration

Thursday, March 3, 2011

Monica Macer got her big break as a staff writer on the first season of the ABC hit show "LOST." Monica then spent two seasons on the Fox show, "Prison Break" before moving on to NBC's "Knight Rider." Monica is currently serving on the writing staff of MTV's scripted show "Teen Wolf" as a co-producer.

Pseudo Servant Leadership and Pseudo Celebrity: Manipulating the Paradox of Power

Monday, February 7, 2011

There is something in the very nature of leadership that implies service. True leaders, those who people follow because they want to not because they have to, always begin with and return to the needs of their followers.

LOST: Servant Leadership in Jack’s “Live Together or Die Alone” Speech

Friday, February 4, 2011

Short clip of Jack's pivotal speech to the survivor's of Oceanic flight 815.

LOST Lessons of Leadership 3: A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing – Authoritarian Leadership Learns to Serve

Friday, February 4, 2011

The second season of LOST introduces yet a third approach to leadership in the person of Dr. Benjamin Linus. As evidenced in the clip below, Ben is the most dangerous type of leader in the postmodern world—a pseudo servant leader, or "power broker."

LOST Lessons of Leadership 2: Jack’s Position of Power, by Gary David Stratton

Thursday, February 3, 2011

In contrast to the “asshole” style of leadership evidenced by Sawyer and his gun (see, Lesson 1), the first season of LOST open’s with a compelling story of a radically different approach: service.