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.