Preface
Chapter One Contemporary Leadership Theory
Chapter Two Leading with Mind and Heart
Chapter Three Lincoln v. Lenin
I. Abraham Lincoln
II. Vladimir Lenin
Chapter Four Roosevelt v. Hitler
I. Theodore Roosevelt
II. Adolph Hitler
Chapter Five Edison v. Ponzi
I. Thomas Edison
II. Charles Ponzi
Chapter Six Addams v. Capone
I. Jane Addams
II. al Capone
Chapter Seven Dewey v. Zedong
I. John Dewey
II. Mao Zedong
Chapter Eight Montessori v. Stalin
I. Maria Montessori
II. Joseph Stalin
Chapter Nine Friere v. Jones
I. Paulo Friere
II. Jim Jones
Chapter Ten Paterno v. Milosevic
I. Joe Paterno
II Slobodan Milosevic
Chapter Eleven Carter v. Hussein
I. Jimmy Carter
II. Saddam Hussein
Chapter Twelve Buffett v. Madoff
I. Warren Buffett
II. Bernard Madoff
Chapter Thirteen Leadership Lessons Learned
Appendix: Heart Smart Survey
Robert H. Palestini is dean emeritus and professor of educational
leadership at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania. He is also the Director of the Educational
Leadership Institute and Center for Urban Catholic Education at
SJU. In addition, almost fifty years in the field of
education, he has been a science teacher, principal, and
superintendent of schools.
Dr. Palestini’s Leadership with a Conscience, explores the need for
leaders to develop a leadership framework on both practical and
theoretical levels. By examining the leadership behavior of a
number of legendary leaders, one can easily trace the success or
failure of the leader in relationship to whether he or she adhered
to Bolman and Deal’s Four Frames of Leadership, as well as
Palestini’s moral frame. This is both fascinating as well as
reflective reading for today’s leaders as well as a great
springboard for discussion in leadership groups.
*Patricia Fadden, I.H.M., President, Immaculata University*
Robert Palestini’s new book, Leadership with a Conscience speaks to
the age. As Americans become more concerned about the
character and behavior of leaders in business, education,
entertainment, sports and public affairs, they fervently seek
models of effective leadership that might inform and inspire them
and their successors. Drawing on his own experience and his
close reading of history and biography, Dr. Palestini examines the
characteristics and behaviors manifested by twenty legendary
leaders through the lens of both Bolman and Deal’ Four Frames of
Leadership as well as his own moral frame (rooted in the principles
of the Ignatian Vision); all of which offers a more comprehensive
situational leadership theory. Palestini’s book takes a common
sense approach to issues of leadership by offering a clear
connection between theory and practice that will inform, inspire
and encourage leaders to examine their leadership behavior honestly
and, hopefully, act accordingly.
*Gregory G. Dell’Omo, Ph.D, President, Robert Morris
University*
There is no better way to learn about leadership than to study
great leaders looking for the habits of mind and heart that enabled
them to make a difference. That’s just what Robert Palestini does
in Leading with a Conscience, taking readers on a journey through
the lives of some twenty legendary leaders as diverse, fascinating
and instructive as Jane Addams and Warren Buffet at one end of the
moral spectrum, and Vladimir Lenin and Bernie Madoff at the other
end. Anyone interested in leadership and the lives of emblematic
leaders should find much to like in Palestini’s new book.
*John Smithson, Interim President, Saint Joseph’s University*
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