Teaching by Heart One Professor's Journey to Inspire

The best teachers are leaders and the best leaders are teachers.Teaching by Heart summarizes the author's key insights gained from more than forty years of teaching and managing. It illustrates how teachers can both lift people up and let them down. It proposes that the best teachers are also leaders and the best leaders are also teachers.In examining how to lead and teach renowned Harvard Business School professor Thomas J. DeLong takes the reader inside his own head and heart. He notes that as teachers we often focus more on our inadequacies and missteps than on our strengths and unique talents. He explains why this is so by dissecting and analyzing his own experiences--using himself as a case study.The book's goal is to help readers learn about the intricacies of teaching and managing and to impart lessons about how teachers can create a unique teaching atmosphere. To do this the author analyzes the process of creating a curriculum preparing for an eighty-minute class managing the fifteen minutes before class begins and evaluating the nature of the teaching experience after the session concludes.Along the way he connects specific classroom behaviors with leadership issues--in organizations in teams and in personal relationships. He also asks--and answers--some provocative questions such asWhat happens on multiple levels when I teach or lead--with me students or professionals?What am I thinking and feeling as I process what students are thinking and feeling?How are my internal conversations affecting how I teach and lead?How do I manage my biases including having favorite students?To what extent can I use teaching methods in the arena of management?Throughout Teaching by Heart DeLong discusses why empathy and authenticity matter. When teachers embrace this mindset students have the opportunity to have a unique learning experience. Teachers and managers will learn how to create moments of transformation for students.Whether you're a university professor a student a business leader or just someone fascinated by teaching this book will instruct entertain and--hopefully--inspire. Review Named a Best Leadership Book of 2020 by Leadership NowAdvance Praise for Teaching by HeartWe should all know what makes teachers great and how they can move us to think about our own roles as leaders. Tom DeLong is the right person to do this. I'm struck by his honesty and willingness to show in captivating detail his own vulnerability--a radical act that will alter readers of Teaching by Heart. -- Ophelia Dahl Cofounder and Chair Board of Directors Partners in HealthTom DeLong lives at the intersection of the art and science of teaching and leading. Anyone facing leadership challenges will learn unique approaches on how to teach and lead to enhance their organization. Teaching by Heart is a must-read. -- David A. Thomas President Morehouse CollegeTom DeLong has written a beautiful powerful and inspiring book. It's both a memoir and an instruction manual--a how-to guide for great teaching and a testament to the unparalleled joy that both teaching and learning can bring. Every teacher regardless of their students' age or the subject matter they teach should read this book. -- Debora L. Spar Professor Harvard Business School former President Barnard CollegeThe one characteristic that all of Tom DeLong's classes have in common is the extent to which students are touched emotionally. All of us are lucky Tom has taken the time to share the secrets that come from forty years of masterful teaching. -- Leonard A. Schlesinger Professor Harvard Business School President Emeritus Babson CollegeTeaching by Heart is both a compelling personal story and a feast of insights into teaching learning and leading. While I've been the beneficiary of Tom's perceptive advice over the last two decades it was still thought provoking to experience the r