When asked by a sports editor for the Lanthorn, Grand Valley State University's student publication, what three historical figures he would most like to have dinner with, Morris Berger, the newly announced offensive coordinator for the GVSU Lakers football team, responded Adolf Hitler, John F. Kennedy, and Christopher Columbus.

"This is probably not going to get a good review," he said, "but I'm going to say Adolf Hitler. It was obviously very sad and he had bad motives, but the way he was able to lead was second-to-none. How he rallied a group and a following, I want to know how he did that. Bad intentions of course, but you can't deny he wasn't a great leader" (Voss, 2020).

When the article ran, it caused a stir. Shortly after, the writer, Kellen Voss, was asked by someone in the university's athletics department to alter the online story to remove those comments. The Lanthorn initially complied, but then changed course and added the full interview back in. Once the Lanthorn republished the quote, the story went viral. It was covered in the Washington Post, on ESPN, and in Sports Illustrated and even ended up in the monologue of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (Boatner, 2020)

Who are the leaders in this situation? How would you describe their actions as leaders based on the definition of leadership in this chapter? Do you think it was wrong for Coach Berger to cite Hitler as a "great leader"? What is your reaction to Coach Berger resigning one week after signing a contract to coach at GVSU? Based on our discussion of morality and leadership in this chapter, would you say Coach Berger's comments are based on leadership as a neutral process or on leadership as a process that has a moral dimension? Why?

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