Diana Walsh Shares Her Manual on Leadership

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🗓️ 9 November 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Being the president of anything takes vision, ambition, and leadership. Being the president of a leading academic institution takes courage (and a whole lot of smarts). Leading Wellesley College for almost 20 years while it ushered in the new millennium took Dr. Diana Chapman Walsh. In her new memoir, The Claims of Life, she gives you a front row seat to the front office of Wellesley and walks you how she got there. Diana is also one of our nearest and dearest friends….and we loved talking to her. Our bookstore this week is Bear Pond Books in Montpelier, Vermont. Books mentioned in this week's episode: The Claims of Life by Diana Chapman Walsh A Synthesizing Mind: A Memoir from the Creator of Multiple Intelligences Theory by Howard Gardner Death at an Early Age by Jonathan Kozol North Woods by Daniel Mason Save me a Seat!: A Life with Movies by Rick Winston Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:32.4	Welcome back book casers. Your assignment this week, every Thursday and every week thereafter
0:42.7	to sign on and go into the bookcase. I'm Charlie Gibson. And I am Kate Gibson. We are the
0:48.5	fun assignment club. I'll look at us that way. Sure. Why not? All of you are getting good grades.
0:53.9	This week we have,
0:55.4	and I've got to go belly up and make an admission, this week we have a dear, dear friend of mine
1:01.9	and of Cates. Diana Walsh is the past president of Wellesley College, all women's college, just
1:09.7	outside Boston, probably as fine a women's
1:13.4	college as exists in this country.
1:16.1	Diana has been a friend for more than 30 years.
1:19.1	She's one of the most thoughtful and lovely people that I know.
1:23.2	And I have known her since long before she became president of Wellesley. And she came over one day and she said,
1:30.3	you're not going to believe this, but I'm being interviewed for the presidency of Wellesley. She was
1:34.4	teaching at Harvard at the time. And she said, how likely is this? I'm shy. I'm uncomfortable
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