TO PREPARE:

READ: Maciariello and Linkletter, Ch. 6 – “Effective Leadership as a Liberal Art.”

READ: Tolstoy on Lincoln

READ: “Chainsaw” Al Dunlap: http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2025898_2025900_2026107,00.html (Links to an external site.)

READ: Larry Spears, “Character and Servant Leadership: Ten Characteristics of Effective, Caring Leaders,” The Journal of Virtues & Leadership, Vol. 1 Issue 1, 2010, 25-30. http://www.regent.edu/acad/global/publications/jvl/vol1_iss1/Spears_Final.pdf (Links to an external site.)

Deliverables

After covering the required readings for Lesson 8, pay special attention to the article by Larry Spears, “Character and Servant Leadership: Ten Characteristics of Effective, Caring Leaders.”

1. Larry Spears describes 10 aspects of Servant Leadership in the article. Can you identify among these 10, the characteristics of a moralist? How do the Trust Conditions, Autonomy Preference, and Identity Utility apply?
2. Based on these 10 aspects and the material in Lesson 8, what can good leadership accomplish? What does “bad” leadership accomplish? (Don’t forget to read about “Chainsaw Al.”)