The Übermensch – the superhuman – overcomes own cowardice and dares to stake out a unique path, according to Nietzsche. Nietzsche didn’t really believe such humans would ever exist, but then Fridtjof Nansen was born. A leader and entrepreneur, a nation-builder and a true hero. Kristiania of the 1880s is a lesson in courage, dynamic action and the will to create something larger than oneself. These are the modern-day requirements leaders often encounter. And we find many answers in the society of Kristiania from this time.
Kristiania in the late 1880s was a hotbed of innate leaders, original thinkers, artists, and innovative forces. Leadership is about taking a stand, choices, and responsibility.
The seminar moves through historical sites in Oslo where we explore three communities.
Henrik Ibsen and his requirements for leaders who had capital ideas: Ibsen’s homage to leaders with passion and capital ideas and total contempt for cowardice. Leadership is about choices and own standpoint.
The Kristiania bohemians as a resource and creative community. Are the answers related to leadership heavier than most of us believe? Are leaders able to believe in their own mandate?
Polar explorers and Fridtjof Nansen: A study in intrepidity, strategic intuition, dynamic enterprise and a will to create something great. Leadership is action. And nothing is impossible, the impossible just takes a little longer.
