Driven to Lead: Good, Bad, and Misguided Leadership -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- The Author -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: How Much Can We Hope For? -- Good Leadership Is a Natural Human Behavior -- Is Bad Leadership Part of the Human Condition? -- Leadership Is Decision Making, and We Are Decision Makers -- Part One: The Leadership Brain -- Chapter 2: A Brain Designed for Leadership? -- Description of the Decision-Making Process in Action -- Evidence of the Decision-Making Process -- The Role of Emotions -- Helen Makes Her Decision -- The Prefrontal Cortex -- Conflict Detector -- Treasures of the Neocortex -- The Dorsolateral Module and Working Memory -- The Rostromedial and Rostrolateral Cortexes: What I Am -- Checks and Balances Amongst the Drives -- A Comprehensive Test: The Ultimatum Game -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3: Darwin Rediscovered: Did the Brain Evolve Leadership Capabilities? -- A Larger Brain - with a Price to Pay -- A Better Food Supply - with a Price to Pay -- Pair-Bonding Pays the Tab -- The Upper Paleolithic Transition -- The Development of Morality -- People-w/o-Conscience -- Part Two: Historic Leadership Patterns -- Chapter 4: All About Leaders: Good, Bad, and Misguided -- Definitions of Leadership -- Evil Leadership: Napoleon's Rise to Power by Any Means -- Misguided Leadership on Offshore Oil Platforms -- Good Leadership: Displacing Macho Culture on Offshore Oil Platforms -- Other Evidence of the Effectiveness of Good/Moral Leadership -- Moral Leadership -- Preview of Chapters Five Through Seven -- Chapter 5: Leadership and the Historic Evolution of Political Institutions -- The Fall and the Rise of Leaders-w/o-Conscience -- The Cultural Shift to Civilization and the Rise of Leaders-w/o-Conscience -- The Dark Ages as an Age of Leaders-w/o-Conscience -- Machiavelli's Clear View of Leaders-w/o-Conscience.

A Solution to the Problem of Leaders-w/o-Conscience? -- Checks and Balances -- Lincoln's Good/Moral Leadership -- Progress and Regress in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries -- Chapter 6: Leadership of Economic Institutions: The Rise of Corporations -- Overview of Economic Institutions -- Overview of the Corporation -- The Rise of American Corporations and the Struggle to Regulate Them -- The First Corporations with National Scope: The Railroads -- The Federal Response -- Standard Oil -- Corporate Abuses Leading into the Great Depression -- Progress and Regress Since the Great Depression -- Chapter 7: Leadership in Institutions of Human Meaning: Religion, Art, and Science -- The Institution of Religion and Human Meaning -- Good/Moral Leadership and the Gnostic Challenge to Orthodox Christianity -- The Institution of Art and Human Meaning -- The Institution of Science and Human Meaning -- Possible Convergence of Religion and Science on the Meaning of Human Existence? -- The Convergence of Religion and Science as a Leadership Challenge -- Part Three: Leadership in Contemporary Affairs -- Chapter 8: Keeping on Track: Leadership in Contemporary Corporations -- Can Corporations Ever Be Humane? Good/Moral Leadership of Corporations -- Medtronic - A Values-Driven Company -- Medtronic - A Performance-Driven Company -- Nucor: Good/Moral Leadership in the Steel Industry -- Enron: A Counterexample of Off-Track Leadership -- Misguided Leadership: The Role of Agency Theory -- Designing Corporate Structures to Encourage Good/Moral Corporate Behavior -- The Role of Governmental Regulation in Keeping Corporations on Track -- Corporate Corruption of the Electoral Process -- Reforming the Federal Electoral System -- The Potential Role of Science in Keeping Corporations on Track -- Chapter 9: A Worldwide Swindle: By Banking Leaders-w/o-Conscience?.

Was the Meltdown Really a Black Swan? -- The Fleecing Machine -- The Role of the Big Multinational Banks in the Subprime Mortgage Mess -- Lack of Control, Lack of Self-Control -- Lack of External Control: Regulation -- Conclusion -- Chapter 10: Keeping a Global Economy and a Global Community on Track -- The Global Economy as a Challenge to the Drive to Bond -- Keeping a Global Economy on Track -- Understanding the Multiple Forms of Globalization -- Global Economic Regulation -- War and Genocide as Challenges to the Drive to Bond -- Keeping a Global Community on Track -- Facing Up to the Coming Crisis at the World Level -- Institutional Suggestions at the World Level -- Chapter 11: Keeping on Track by Practicing Good/Moral Leadership -- Leading Oneself -- Internalizing the RD Theory Concept of Good/Moral Leadership -- Learning and Practicing Good/Moral Leadership -- Sizing Up the Leadership Role -- Summarizing What Leaders Need to Know About Groups -- Practicing Good/Moral Leadership -- Action Implications of the RD Theory at the Institutional Level -- Overview of the People-w/o-Conscience Issue -- Ending the Nightmare -- Chapter 12: Renewing the Story of Human Progress with Darwin's Help -- Appendix: Darwin Misunderstood -- Religion -- Social Darwinism -- The Response of Mainstream Biologists -- The Response of the Social Sciences -- The Response of the Physical Sciences -- Notes -- Index.