Transcript the nature of good leadership by Professor Joanne B Ciulla

Ethics and Effectiveness
The Nature of Good
Leadership
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Prof. Joanne B. Ciulla
Jepson School of
Leadership Studies,
University of Richmond
Ptah-Hotep 2200-2500 B.C.
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Trust
Prisse Papyrus, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris
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Self-Interest
Rafael, School of Athens, Fresco at the Apostolic Palace, Vatican City, (1509-10) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sanzio_01.jpg
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In a city of good men, if it came into being, the
citizens would fight in order not to rule… There
it would be clear that anyone who is really a
true ruler doesn’t by nature seek his own
advantage but that of his subjects. And
everyone, knowing this, would rather be
benefited by others than take the trouble to
benefit them.
Plato 428-348 B.C.
Republic Book II
http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/PictDisplay/Plato.html
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Self-Control
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Confucius_-_Project_Gutenberg_eText_15250.jpg
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If a ruler sets himself right, he will be
followed without his command. If he
does not set himself right, even his
commands will not be obeyed.
Confucius 551-479 B.C.
Analects
http://www.chinavoc.com/history/dongzhou/images/kzi.jpg
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Ego
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He who stands on tiptoe is
not steady.
Lao Tzu
Tao-te-Ching 6th B.C
http://www.onelittleangel.com/wisdom/art/sacred_net.asp?mc=37
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Jan Massys - David and Bathsheba (1562, Oil on wood, 162 x 197 cm) Wikipedia Commons
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The Bathsheba Syndrome*
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Success
Isolation
Control Over Resources
Loss of Strategic Focus
Inflated belief in ability
to control outcomes
*From, Dean C. Ludiwg and Clinton Longenecker, “The
Bathsheba Syndrome,” Business Ethics Quarterly, 12(4)
(1993): 265-273.
Ernest Fuchs http://www.meaus.com/Ernst_Fuchs_Exhibition.html
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Power
Legitimate
Reward or Punish
Expert
Family Name
Networks
Referent
Moral
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Leaders Are Responsible for the Things That They Do
And the Things that They Do Not Do
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Ethics and Effectiveness
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Ethics and Effectiveness
The Problem of Dirty Hands
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Am I doing the right thing?
Am I doing it in the right way?
Am I doing it for the right reason?
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Ethical Fading
Rationalizing
Equivocation
Careerism
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Responses
Exit
Voice
Loyalty
See Albert O. Hirshman, Exit, Voice,
and Loyalty: Responses to Decline in
Firms, Organizations, and States,
Harvard Univerisity Press, 1970.
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Care and Being There
Why Public Servants Should Not Fiddle While Rome Burns
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Bush on the Day Katrina Made Landfall
With Singer Mark Willis
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Bush as Nero
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Leaders Must Remember
Where They Came From and What They Know
Ferdinand Magellan, 1480?-1521
http://encarta.msn.com/media_461532172_761570410_1_1/Ferdinand_Magellan.html
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Ethics and Effectiveness
Am I doing the right thing?
Am I doing it the right way?
Am I doing it for the right reason?
Am I using what I have learned?