Walter Earl Fluker
Autor von Ethical Leadership: The Quest for Character, Civility, and Community (Prisms) (Prisms)
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Walter Earl Fluker is the Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Ethical Leadership, the editor of the Howard Thurman Papers Project, and the Director of the Martin Luther King Jr. Initiative for the Development of Ethical Leadership (MLK-IDEAL) at Boston University School of Theology and the Graduate mehr anzeigen School of Arts and Sciences. weniger anzeigen
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Ethical Leadership: The Quest for Character, Civility, and Community (Prisms) (Prisms) (2009) 34 Exemplare
The Ground Has Shifted: The Future of the Black Church in Post-Racial America (Religion, Race, and Ethnicity) (2016) 16 Exemplare
The Papers of Howard Washington Thurman: Christian, Who Calls Me Christian?, April 1936-August 1943 (Non Series) (2012) 4 Exemplare
The Papers of Howard Washington Thurman: The Bold Adventure, September 1943-May 1949 (Non Series) (2015) 4 Exemplare
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Ethical leadership is the successful navigation of two worlds: lifeworlds and systemworlds.
"Lifeworlds" refers to the commonplace, everyday traffic of life where people meet and greet one another, where common values and presuppositions about order and the world are held. "Systemworlds" refers to the vast, often impersonal bureaucratic systems dominated by money and power (economics and politics and the various structures of communications and technology), which are frequently at odds with the pedestrian traffic of lifeworlds" (7).
A leader navigates the intersection of these two worlds through three ethical practices which have corresponding dimensions (viii) and are each marked by three virtues (130):
1. Character is the personal realm marked by integrity, empathy, and hope.
2. Civility is the societal realm marked by reverence, respect, and recognition.
3. Community is the spiritual realm marked by courage, justice, and compassion.
This three-times-three matrix forms "The Ethical Leadership ModelTM" which Fluker fleshes out by drawing on the work of Howard Washington Thurman and Martin Luther King Jr. along with a variety of voices from the black church.
On the positive side, Ethical Leadership is a thoughtful elucidation of many key virtues. Fluker's selection and categorization was often thought provoking. You might expect reverence to be a spiritual virtue, but he explains it with respect to civility. Conversely, he explains the spiritual value of courage where I would have assumed it to be a personal virtue.
Unfortunately, two features took away from the value of the book. First, the selection and categorization of virtues seemed arbitrary. It is uncertain why he chose some virtues and ignored others. Second, his writing style didn't suit the subject matter. He wrote about these academic issues like a preacher would preach. There were few concise sentences. If one term was sufficient, two were better, and three were preferred. This style undermined clarity and added (unnecessarily) to the length of the book.
The "The Ethical Leadership ModelTM" developed by Fluker is still a timely message, but it would be better experienced in a live conference than a book.… (mehr)