Ten Virtues of Outstanding Leaders

About the Authors x
 
Prologue xi
 
Part I Character Leadership 1
 
1 What Is Leadership? 3
 
A Reflection 4
 
Ethics, Virtue, and Character 9
 
2 Misleadership 13
 
What Is Bad Leadership? 14
 
Misleaders 15
 
Bad Followers 17
 
A Few Examples 18
 
3 Character and Leadership 22
 
Character and Integrity 24
 
The Dark Side of Character 28
 
Character as Goodwill 35
 
4 Leadership and Business Excellence 38
 
Ethics in Business 39
 
Workplace Ethics 41
 
Leaders as Role Models 42
 
A Culture of Narcissism 44
 
5 The Ten Virtues 47
 
Deep Honesty 51
 
Moral Courage 53
 
Moral Vision 54
 
Compassion and Care 55
 
Fairness 58
 
Intellectual Excellence 60
 
Creative Thinking 62
 
Aesthetic Sensitivity 63
 
Good Timing 64
 
Deep Selfl essness 65
 
Part II Leadership in Action 71
 
6 James Burke and the Tylenol Poisoning Episodes: Deep Honesty 73
 
Burke's Rise to Leadership 74
 
Response to Crisis 75
 
A Further Challenge 78
 
7 Abraham Lincoln/Rosa Parks: Moral Courage 81
 
Courage: Physical and Moral 82
 
Team of Rivals 84
 
An Important Bus Ride 86
 
Shared Convictions 87
 
8 Winston Churchill: Moral Judgment and Moral Vision 90
 
Churchill versus Halifax 91
 
The War Cabinet Meets 94
 
Churchill's Judgment 99
 
The Hinge of Fate 103
 
9 Oprah Winfrey: Compassion and Care 106
 
Star Status and More 107
 
Her Fan Base 109
 
The Book Club 111
 
Leadership Is a Relationship 113
 
10 Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Sicilian Slapping Incidents: Fairness 117
 
The Slapping Incidents 118
 
The Challenges Ike Faced 120
 
Ike's Response 122
 
11 FDR and the A-Bomb: Intellectual Excellence 127
 
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Al Gini is Professor of Business Ethics at Loyola University Chicago, USA, where he is also Chair of the Department of Management in the Quinlan School of Business. A co-founder and long-time associate editor of Business Ethics Quarterly, the journal of the Society for Business Ethics, Professor Gini has for 25 years been the resident philosopher on the NPR affiliate in Chicago, WBEZ-FM, and is a regular speaker on the public lecture circuit. His books include The Ethics of Business (2012), which he co-authored with Alexei Marcoux; Seeking The Truth of Things (2010); Why It's Hard to Be Good (2006); and The Importance of Being Lazy: In Praise of Play, Leisure and Vacations (2003).
 
Ronald M. Green is Eunice & Julian Cohen Professor for the Study of Ethics and Human Values at Dartmouth College, USA. He served as the director of Dartmouth's Ethics Institute from 1992 until 2011. Professor Green is actively involved in numerous fields of applied ethics, particularly bioethics and business ethics, and is a consultant to a number of leading corporations including Ogilvy & Mather. A former director of the National Institutes of Health's National Human Genome Research Institute, Professor Green has also been a member of the NIH's Human Embryo Research Panel. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2005. Professor Green's many publications include The Ethical Manager (1993) and Babies by Design (2007).

"If this was, indeed, their intention, I believe they have been entirely successful. Also, as I said earlier, it's a very good read. And, if that phrase seems to trivialise it, let me add that it includes an abundance of references and signposts to sources of further study, which gives it undoubted academic cachet." ( New Nurturing Potential , 1 July 2013)

"If this was, indeed, their intention, I believe they have been entirely successful. Also, as I said earlier, it s a very good read. And, if that phrase seems to trivialise it, let me add that it includes an abundance of references and signposts to sources of further study, which gives it undoubted academic cachet." ( New Nurturing Potential , 1 July 2013)