Full Description
Leaders and aspiring leaders from all over the world are constantly searching for role models who are successful in placing leadership theory into effective practice. This book identifies ten such role models whose heroic leadership behavior is analyzed in order to reveal what particular abilities and skills made them successful in their particular society and culture and how those attributes can be applied to one's own leadership practice, whether that be as a classroom teacher, a principal, a superintendent of schools or a college president in the United States or elsewhere in the world.
Contents
Introduction
Chapter One: Contemporary Leadership Theory
Chapter Two: Leading with Heart
Chapter Three: Moses
Chapter Four: Gautama Buddha
Chapter Five: Confucius
Chapter Six: Jesus Christ
Chapter Seven: Muhammad
Chapter Eight: Mahatma Gandhi
Chapter Nine: Martin Luther King, Jr.
Chapter Ten: St. Pope John Paul II
Chapter Eleven: St. Mother Teresa
Chapter Twelve: Pope Francis I
Chapter Thirteen: What Have You Learned
Appendix: Diagnostics (Heart Smart Surveys I & II)
References
About the Author
