The Ethical Side of Leadership

Dr. Helen EckmannJames L. Consulting

www.JamesLConsulting.com

“The great conversation across the centuries.”

Michael J. Sandel, “Justice”“For if we turn our gaze to the arguments about

justice and animate contemporary politics – not among philosophers but among ordinary men and women – we find a more complicated picture. It is true that most of our arguments are about promoting prosperity and respecting individual freedom, at least on the surface. But underlying these arguments, and sometimes contending with them, we can often glimpse another set of convictions –about what virtues are worthy of honor and reward, and what way of life a good society should promote” (Sandel, 2009 p. 8).

Sandel’s Harvard Website +http://www.justiceharvard.org/

Interview on Colbert Reporthttp://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/392600/july-20-2011/michael-sandel

Values Thoughts Decisions Behaviors

The Good Society – (Business & Government)

No Agreement For 2,500 YearsAristotle – “so some

can live the good life”

Locke – “life, liberty and property”

Rousseau – “same as the state of nature”

Adam Smith – “absolute economic freedom”

Marx – “economic equality”

M.L. King – “natural rights”

Four Parameters

Span of ControlConcentric circles

Interior working to the family/organization moving to the society/government

Me

Family Organizatio

nSociety/

Government

Heifetz, R. Linsky, M. (2002). Leadership on the line. New York. Harvard University Press.

Balcony

Dance Floor

Learning To Decide “What Is Good”

Tension Thinking

Frameworks Affect Outcomes

Senge (2006). The fifth discipline; The art and practice of the learning organization. New York: Doubleday Publishers.

Learning To Decide “What Is Good”

Three “Buckets of Moral Reasoning”

80% of all decisions have an ethical component.

Each decision is made from one bucket.

Kant, I. (1959). Foundations of the metaphysics of morals. (L. W. Beck, Trans.). New York: Macmillan Publishers.

Three “Buckets of Moral Reasoning”

D T V

The Eight Dials of Ethical Decision

Making

Deciding between what I love and the truth.

Truth Loyalty

Kidder, R. M. (1995). How good people make tough choices. New York: A Fireside Book, Simon & Schuster.

Deciding between giving others what they

“deserve” and “giving them another chance.”

Justice Mercy

Deciding between what is good for the smaller ‘group’ and the larger ‘group.’

Self Community

Deciding between what is good right now

and what might be good in the future.

Short-Term Long-Term

Deciding between saying or doing what I

think is true or what is politically correct.

Polite Authentic

Deciding between who or what I think should

receive an “exception” and when everyone

should receive an equal amount.

Fair Equal

Deciding between Vision/Brainstorming/Possibility

and being practical and grounded in reality.

Fantasy Reality

Deciding between “going my own way” and

“going the way of the group.”

Collaboration Competition

Testing Through Case Studies

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