Leadership is the Latest Focus of Southwestern University's Distinguished Speaker Series

September 14, 2000

Arizona State University West Professor David Van Fleet will speak on "Leadership: What We Think We Know and What We Think We Don't Know" at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 20, in the F.W. Olin Building, Room 105. The lecture is free and open to the public as part of Southwestern University's A. Frank Smith, Jr. Lecture Series.

A teacher for 37 years, Van Fleet is widely recognized for his research on leadership, the organization of managerial functions and the history of management thought. His work also has focused on women in management, black entrepreneurship, quality circles, the span of management and, most recently, workplace violence and terrorism. His creative blending of economics and management has won him high regard as a scholar, editor and consultant.

Van Fleet is senior author of Military Leadership: An Organizational Behavior Perspective, a volume regarded as a definitive reference work for scholars on military leadership. He has appeared on radio and television, has written newspaper articles and had them written about his work. In 1983, he won the Showcase Study Award of the Organizational Behavior Division of the Academy of Management.

In 1988, the Austin law firm of Vinson & Elkins established an endowment for this lecture program to honor its former partner and longtime Southwestern University trustee, A. Frank Smith, Jr. These lectures bring to campus distinguished guest speakers in the fields of law, history, government, political science, and public service.

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