Ethical Leadership

by Fluker, Walter Earl

• ISBN13: 9780800663490
• ISBN10: 0800663497
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-02-01
• Publisher: Fortress Pr

Summary

We live in a leadership crisis. In an age when incompatible worlds collide and when scandals rock formerly stable institutions, says Walter Fluker, what counts most is ethical leadership and the qualities of personal integrity, spiritual discipline, intellectual openness, and moral anchoring that Fluker finds exemplified in the work and thought of black-church giants Martin Luther King Jr. and Howard Thurman.

Author Biography

Walter Earl Fluker is Executive Director of the Leadership Center at Morehouse College, Atlanta; the Coca-Cola Professor of Leadership Studies there; editor of the Howard Thurman Papers Project; and founder of Vision Quest International.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Introduction: At the Intersection Where Worlds Collide	p. 1
Private and Public Spheres of the Intersection	p. 6
Debates at the Intersection	p. 8
Leadership at the Intersection	p. 10
Howard Washington Thurman and Martin Luther King Jr.: Critical Resources in the Development of Ethical Leadership	p. 11
The Black Church Tradition	p. 11
Howard Thurman: The Opener of the Way	p. 16
Martin Luther King Jr.: Transformed Nonconformists	p. 23
Thurman and King at the Intersection Where Worlds Collide	p. 28
What Is Ethical Leadership?	p. 33
Self, Social, and Spiritual	p. 34
Spirituality, Ethics, and Leadership	p. 36
Ways of Doing Ethics	p. 41
Drinking from Our Own Wells	p. 55
Character at the Intersection	p. 57
The Quest for Character	p. 57
The Defining Virtues of Character	p. 62
Civility at the Intersection	p. 85
The Quest for Civility	p. 85
Dysfunctional and Transformative Civility	p. 87
The Defining Values of Civility	p. 90
Community at the Intersection	p. 121
The Quest for Community	p. 121
The Defining Virtues, Values, and Virtuosities of Character, Civility, and Community	p. 131
Staying Awake at the Intersection	p. 157
Beware of Unicorns!	p. 158
Imagination, Character, Civility, and Community	p. 160
Remembering, Retelling, and Reliving Our Stories	p. 167
Remembering Our Stories	p. 167
Retelling Our Stories	p. 169
Reliving Our Stories	p. 171
Ethical Decision-Making at the Intersection Where Worlds Collide	p. 175
What's Going On?	p. 175
Discernment	p. 176
Deliberation	p. 180
Decision	p. 182
Katrina: A Defining Moment	p. 187
Notes	p. 191
Index	p. 241
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