Ethical Leadership: The Quest for Character, Civility, and Community (Prisms)

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." Fluker finds these characteristics exemplified in the work and thought of black-church giants Martin Luther King Jr. and Howard Thurman. This volume, for leaders and emergent leaders in religious and other settings, sets forth the context and principles for ethical leadership, particularly for ministries and other professions whose mission directly advances the common good. Fluker's volume grounds leadership in story, the appropriation of one's roots, as a basis for personal and social transformation. He then explores the key values of character, civility, and community for ethical action on the personal, public, and spiritual realms. From these considerations he develops a model of the specific virtues that embody each realm of ethical leadership before applying them to the practical aspects of leadership and decisionmaking.

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• Leadership Jazz - Revised Edition: The Essential Elements of a Great Leader
• The Rise and Fall of Modern Black Leadership: Chronicle of a Twentieth Century Tragedy
• The Ground Has Shifted: The Future of the Black Church in Post-Racial America (Religion, Race, and Ethnicity)
• The Unstuck Church: Equipping Churches to Experience Sustained Health
• Shared Wisdom
• Church Administration Handbook
• The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World
• The Ground Has Shifted: The Future of the Black Church in Post-Racial America (Religion, Race, and Ethnicity)