Practicing the Ethics of Leadership.

As a topic for discussion, consider instances in which you have seen leaders act in a way you consider unethical. What about those situations made them unethical? What choices did the leader have that might have led in a different direction? And what about you? As a leader, how can you break out of your standard ways of thinking to be sure to consider the ethical implications of your actions? How can you bring the same creativity to addressing moral questions that you bring to addressing questions of cost, performance, or results? How can you expose your own faulty assumptions about yourself, about other people, and about the world in general, assumptions that may lead you to minimize the moral consequences of your actions? How can you be creative in your leadership, yet at the same time be sure that your creativity is not used to develop faulty justifications for your actions?

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