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The Practice of Ethical Leadership
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The Practice of Ethical Leadership

by Claas Florian Engelke, Richard B. Swegan
April 2024
Intermediate to advanced
262 pages
8h 1m
English
Routledge
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Chapter 3 Leadership and Love

DOI: 10.4324/b23260-6

Preliminary Thoughts on the Notion of Love, and the Lessons It Holds on the Matter of Ethical Leadership

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

(Ralph Nader—lawyer, political activist, writer)

Great leadership engenders ownership, inspiration, possibly contentment, and, as Nader puts it so beautifully in his quote above, more leaders. This chapter is a bold attempt at contributing the idea of leadership by love in a clear and emphatic manner. In this chapter we boldly attempt to zoom in on love with a historic as well as conceptual perspective. This chapter is supposed to give a direction as to how love can be taken up as a conscious choice by demonstrating ...

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