Gordon Schmidt and Sy Islam
Leaders Assemble! Leadership in the MCU
Exploring Effective Leadership Practices Through Popular Culture
Emerald Publishing Limited, 2022
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You can run a team like Captain America and T’Challa run theirs, but without repeating their mistakes.
Recommendation
Professors Gordon Schmidt and Sy Islam pull leadership lessons from popular Marvel films – one of the most profitable franchises in history – and apply them to organizational practices. They break down how characters like Iron Man and T’Challa lead their teams. The authors hold up these Marvel characters as exemplars of sound leadership, while also pointing out the blunders they make so that you never do the same. Readers who are unfamiliar with the Marvel Comics Universe (MCU) might find the authors’ teaching paradigm a bit less thrilling, but fans will have a good time.
Summary
About the Authors
Gordon B. Schmidt, PhD is a teacher and management researcher at the University of Louisiana Monroe. Sy Islam, who co-founded Consulting with Talent Metrics, teaches Industrial Organizational Psychology at Farmingdale State College in New York.
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