Recent Publications:

Ethical Leadership
The Quest for Character, Civility and Community

A public conversation on the role of ethical leadership is escalating in our society. As I write this preface, our nation is involved in two costly wars; struggling with a financial crisis precipitated by unscrupulous ethical practices on Wall Street; recovering from a presidential campaign that degenerated into character assassination based on race, religion, and unresolved cultural wars; and hearing a confused and frightened citizenry that is asking, “Which way is north?” Leadership studies abound with various approaches to this question. Among the most popular are theories of adaptive strategies, authenticity, personal efficacy, character development, and more recently , a growing literature on emotional and social intelligence, connectivity, and resonance. Absent from many of these approaches is attention to the relationship between spirituality and ethics and how it informs and shapes human consciousness so that  leaders are predisposed to make fitting decisions and are enabled to carry out appropriate ethical actions among competing claims and a cacophony of voices and visions.

Beware of Unicorns (pdf)

Transformed Nonconformity: Spirituality, Ethics, and Leadership in the Life and Work of Martin Luther King, Jr. (pdf)

Somewhere, Somplace (pdf)

Dangerous Memories (pdf)

Recognition, Respectability, and Loyalty (pdf)