Table of Contents

Preface
Chapter One Contemporary Leadership Theory
Chapter Two Leading with Mind and Heart
Chapter Three Lincoln v. Lenin
I. Abraham Lincoln
II. Vladimir Lenin
Chapter Four Roosevelt v. Hitler
I. Theodore Roosevelt
II. Adolph Hitler
Chapter Five Edison v. Ponzi
I. Thomas Edison
II. Charles Ponzi
Chapter Six Addams v. Capone
I. Jane Addams
II. al Capone
Chapter Seven Dewey v. Zedong
I. John Dewey
II. Mao Zedong
Chapter Eight Montessori v. Stalin
I. Maria Montessori
II. Joseph Stalin
Chapter Nine Friere v. Jones
I. Paulo Friere
II. Jim Jones
Chapter Ten Paterno v. Milosevic
I. Joe Paterno
II Slobodan Milosevic
Chapter Eleven Carter v. Hussein
I. Jimmy Carter
II. Saddam Hussein
Chapter Twelve Buffett v. Madoff
I. Warren Buffett
II. Bernard Madoff
Chapter Thirteen Leadership Lessons Learned
Appendix: Heart Smart Survey

About the Author

Robert H. Palestini is dean emeritus and professor of educational leadership at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  He is also the Director of the Educational Leadership Institute and Center for Urban Catholic Education at SJU.  In addition, almost fifty years in the field of education, he has been a science teacher, principal, and  superintendent of schools.
 

Reviews

Dr. Palestini’s Leadership with a Conscience, explores the need for leaders to develop a leadership framework on both practical and theoretical levels. By examining the leadership behavior of a number of legendary leaders, one can easily trace the success or failure of the leader in relationship to whether he or she adhered to Bolman and Deal’s Four Frames of Leadership, as well as Palestini’s moral frame. This is both fascinating as well as reflective reading for today’s leaders as well as a great springboard for discussion in leadership groups.
*Patricia Fadden, I.H.M., President, Immaculata University*

Robert Palestini’s new book, Leadership with a Conscience speaks to the age. As Americans become more concerned about the character and behavior of leaders in business, education, entertainment, sports and public affairs, they fervently seek models of effective leadership that might inform and inspire them and their successors. Drawing on his own experience and his close reading of history and biography, Dr. Palestini examines the characteristics and behaviors manifested by twenty legendary leaders through the lens of both Bolman and Deal’ Four Frames of Leadership as well as his own moral frame (rooted in the principles of the Ignatian Vision); all of which offers a more comprehensive situational leadership theory. Palestini’s book takes a common sense approach to issues of leadership by offering a clear connection between theory and practice that will inform, inspire and encourage leaders to examine their leadership behavior honestly and, hopefully, act accordingly.
*Gregory G. Dell’Omo, Ph.D, President, Robert Morris University*

There is no better way to learn about leadership than to study great leaders looking for the habits of mind and heart that enabled them to make a difference. That’s just what Robert Palestini does in Leading with a Conscience, taking readers on a journey through the lives of some twenty legendary leaders as diverse, fascinating and instructive as Jane Addams and Warren Buffet at one end of the moral spectrum, and Vladimir Lenin and Bernie Madoff at the other end. Anyone interested in leadership and the lives of emblematic leaders should find much to like in Palestini’s new book.
*John Smithson, Interim President, Saint Joseph’s University*