Leadership and moral purpose

Max O. De Pree is Chair of the Board of Directors of Herman Miller, Inc., Zeeland, Michigan. The following Leon I. Gintzig Commemorative Lecture was delivered at the American College of Healthcare Executives Congress on Administration in March 1993. Portions of this address were previously delivered as the Distinguished Executive Lecture at Purdue University, 21 August 1992. Interested readers are encouraged to read De Pree's books, Leadership Is an Art (1989) and Leadership Jazz (1992).