On this UVA Speaks podcast, hear from Eileen Chou, the Batten Family Bicentennial Teacher-Scholar Leadership Associate Professor of Public Policy at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy at the University of Virginia. She explains her definition of leadership and the belief that leaders are made and not born. Drawing upon her research and that of others in her field, Chou details some key skills one should master to be a good leader and the most important takeaway she hopes her students will remember.
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Eileen Chou is the Batten Family Bicentennial Teacher-Scholar Leadership Associate Professor of Public Policy at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy at the University of Virginia. Professor Chou researches the organizational, social, and psychological forces that shape individual and group behavior in organizational settings. She explores questions such as how the terms of contracts promote or inhibit cooperation among team members, whether and when hierarchy is an effective mechanism of social organization, and how trust can be used as a strategic tactic.