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In this groundbreaking text Sucher recreates the Harvard course The Moral Leader for every student of leadership and ethics. She guides the student reader through the theories of moral leadership as well as enabling a unique journey of discovery.
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The Moral Leader is a literature-based course continuously offered at the Harvard Business School for nearly two decades. This text is dedicated to helping students wrestle with their own definition of moral leadership. By drawing on an impressive array of literary material (prize-winning novels, short stories, plays, historical accounts, and autobiographies) spanning history, geography, culture, and hierarchy, the book allows students to ponder eternal, as well as immediately relevant, moral challenges.
In this groundbreaking text Sandra Sucher recreates the Harvard course for every student of leadership and ethics. She emphasizes decision-making and action, and guides the student reader through the theories of moral leadership as well as enabling a unique journey of discovery - individual to every reader.
Sucher’s aim is not endless debate, but translating analysis and judgment into emerging relevance. Contemporary case studies, available on the website, illustrate the thought provoking content to ground the text in real-life practice. At times insightful, amusing and challenging, always illuminating, this unique text deserves a place on the bookshelf of every leader and future leader, and all who have an interest in leadership today.
Visit the Companion website at www.routledge.com/textbooks/9780415400640.
In this groundbreaking text Sucher recreates the Harvard course The Moral Leader for every student of leadership and ethics. She guides the student reader through the theories of moral leadership as well as enabling a unique journey of discovery.
Back cover copy
The Moral Leader is a literature-based course continuously offered at the Harvard Business School for nearly two decades. This text is dedicated to helping students wrestle with their own definition of moral leadership. By drawing on an impressive array of literary material (prize-winning novels, short stories, plays, historical accounts, and autobiographies) spanning history, geography, culture, and hierarchy, the book allows students to ponder eternal, as well as immediately relevant, moral challenges.
In this groundbreaking text Sandra Sucher recreates the Harvard course for every student of leadership and ethics. She emphasizes decision-making and action, and guides the student reader through the theories of moral leadership as well as enabling a unique journey of discovery - individual to every reader.
Sucher’s aim is not endless debate, but translating analysis and judgment into emerging relevance. Contemporary case studies, available on the website, illustrate the thought provoking content to ground the text in real-life practice. At times insightful, amusing and challenging, always illuminating, this unique text deserves a place on the bookshelf of every leader and future leader, and all who have an interest in leadership today.
Visit the Companion website at www.routledge.com/textbooks/9780415400640.
"Sandra Sucher ... has an extraordinary and excellent grasp of the process of moral reasoning and her exploration of that process through powerful literature and historical figures is just wonderful. This should be required reading--and digestion--for every leader in every organization."
-Professor James G. Clawson, Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, Charlottesville
"The Moral Leader provides an insightful and much needed approach to effective moral leadership and its role in modern society ... The book is an important resource for students and leaders who will confront difficult moral and ethical challenges."
-Professor Kim Cameron, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan
-Professor James G. Clawson, Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, Charlottesville
"The Moral Leader provides an insightful and much needed approach to effective moral leadership and its role in modern society ... The book is an important resource for students and leaders who will confront difficult moral and ethical challenges."
-Professor Kim Cameron, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan