The Search for Ethics in Leadership, Business, and Beyond

Introduction. - About the author. - Acknowledgments. - Part I: The Ethical Challenges of Leadership. - 1 Ethics and Effectiveness: The Nature of Good Leadership. - 2 Habits and Virtues: Does it Matter if a Leader Kicks a Dog? . - 3 Did Nero Fiddle While Rome Burned? Why `Being There is Essential to Leadership. - 4 Searching for Mandela: The Saint as the Sinner Who Keeps on Trying. - 5 Conversations and Correspondence with James MacGregor Burns on the Ethics of Transforming Leadership. - 6 Dangerous Liaisons: Adultery and the Ethics of Presidential Leadership. - Part II: Business Ethics, and Work. - 7 Business Ethics as Moral Imagination. - 8 Moral Imagination and Truth. - 9 Casuistry and the Case for Business Ethics. - 10 The Importance of Leadership in Shaping Business Values. - 11 Is Business Ethics Getting Better? Business Ethics and Business History. - 12 Leadership and the Problem of Bogus Empowerment. - 13 The Moral Conditions of Work. - Part III: The Liberal Arts and the Humanities. - 14 Liberal Arts and Leadership: How to Design a School of Leadership Studies. - 15 The Two Cultures: The Place of the Humanities in Leadership Studies. - Part IV. Leaders and Followers Today. - 16 Leadership and the Power of Resentment. - 17 Afterword.