Leadership with a Conscience by Robert Palestini - 9781610483940

Leadership with a ConscienceEducational Leadership as a Moral Science\nAuthor(s): Robert Palestini\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, United States\nImprint: Rowman & Littlefield Education\nISBN-13: 9781610483940, 978-1610483940\nSynopsis\nLeaders and aspiring leaders 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 and how those attributes can be applied to ones own leadership practice, whether that be as a classroom teacher, a principal or a superintendent of schools . They are juxtaposed with ten leaders who were effective, but certainly not heroic.\n\nDr. Palestini points out that effective leaders have been utilizing the same leadership behavior for centuries. He uses this evidence to support the perennial and lasting impac.