The Culture of Moral Leadership
Even the most casual student of leadership
studies knows that the discipline does not suffer
from a dearth of research and theory. Ralph
Stogdill and Bernard Bass, in their separate and
combined works, itemized and analyzed some 4,
725 studies of leadership (magazines,
professional journals, newspapers, and books)
prior to 1981; and a recent study claims that
there were over 132 books published on
leadership during the 1980s alone. Joseph Rost
believes that leadership is the most written about
topic in social science and management theory
in the last 50 years.9
Philosopher Georges Enderle has said that
leadership would be simple if it only had to be
dealt with abstractly, at the level of ideas. But
such is not the case. Leadership is a living
phenomenon. It is always a messy business