Good leadership is something every leader and organisation should strive towards. This book serves as a pivotal resource in encouraging the understanding and practice of leadership and highlights how good leadership is anchored in the rich philosophy and science of virtue.

Toby P. Newstead, Ph.D., is a leadership scholar at the University of Tasmania, Tasmania, Australia.

Ronald E. Riggio, Ph.D., is the Henry R. Kravis Professor of Leadership and Organizational Psychology at Claremont McKenna College, California, USA.

Acknowledgments

List of Contributors

Series Editor Foreword

Introduction

Toby P. Newstead and Ronald E. Riggio

Section 1: Foundations

1. Moral Virtues: Philosophical Origins and Contemporary Understandings

Gordon Wang and Rick Hackett

2. Leadership and Intellectual Virtues

Chris Smith and Mitch Parsell

3. The Virtue of Leadership

Terry L. Price

4. The Virtues of Political Leaders: Insights from Plutarch

Nancy E. Snow

Section 2: Virtues in Leadership Theory

5. How Practical Wisdom Enables Transformational and Authentic Leadership

Ignacio Ferrero, Massimiliano M. Pellegrini, Elizabeth Reichert and Marta Rocchi

6. Contagious and Constructive Virtue Within the Workplace

Mitchell J. Neubert

7. Leaders as Virtuous Stewards: A Call for Servant Leadership

Garrett W. Potts and Ryan P. Quandt

Section 3: Processes Involved in Leading with Virtue(s)

8. How Wise Leaders Deal with Complex Decisions

Bernard Mckenna

9. Virtuous Influence Practices: How Do Virtue-based Leaders Influence Followers?

Joseph Crawford

10. Leading with Compassion: How Compassion can Enrich Healthcare Leadership in a Post-COVID-19 World

George Gotsis

Section 4: Indigenous Perspectives

11. The Leadership Virtues of Aboriginal women in Australia

Ree Jordon and Sharlene Leroy-Dyer

12. Virtues: Original Teachings and Leadership

Michael Lickers and Lorelei Higgins Parker

Section 5: Developing Virtues

13. Virtuous and Vicious Possible Selves: The Pinwheel Model of Leader Character

Denise Potosky, John J. Sosik, Ziya Ete, and Weichun Zhu

14. The Practice of Developing Leader Character to Elevate Judgment

Corey Crossan and Mary Crossan

15. The Virtues Project: Five Strategies for Inspiring Leadership Linda Kavelin-Popov, David Feldman, and Dara Feldman

Index