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Leadership Gets Personal: Finding Purpose, Transforming Lives, and Never Giving Up

by Nan McRaven

Leadership shaped by a campus community

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Leadership shaped by a campus community

Nan McRaven brings together personal accounts from twelve University of Texas alumni who went on to lead in different fields. The book uses their experiences to consider college as an environment for personal growth, and the role a university community can play in helping people recognize and develop their direction. Its focus on individual stories gives the subject of leadership a biographical frame, linking each profile to the shared experience of learning and growing at UT.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in memoirs and biographical profiles of leaders.
  • Those curious about the influence of college communities on personal development.
  • University of Texas alumni and readers interested in the institution’s alumni.

Themes

LeadershipPersonal growthHigher educationUniversity communityAlumni stories

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Book overview

How the University of Texas shaped twelve people who changed the world.

College is a time for personal growth. But any Biology 101 student knows that growth (personal or otherwise) requires the right environment. Collecting the revealing and deeply personal stories of twelve UT alumni who became leaders in their fields, Leadership Gets Personal honors the transformative impact of the Forty Acres on those who learn and grow there.

Matthew McConaughey, Academy Award-winning actor and #1 New York Times best-selling author, was destined for law school, but with the encouragement of his UT community, he realized he was a born storyteller. Bren

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