What is the importance of ethical leadership?
□ We all get one lifetime to leave our legacy on this planet. Ethics should not be considered just one component of leadership; it should be an integrated and inherently understood aspect of it. I have to laugh at classes about business ethics because our character will be revealed in the trenches rather than on a report card. I contribute to the site www.officepolitics.comas an advisor. We are an online advice column for office politics situations, and we receive letters from all over the globe. The hardest letters to read are those where the letter-writer is facing an antagonist whose moral compass is broken. It is also the easiest advice to give, because you want them to get as far away from that person as possible. 5. Does being ethical lend itself to also being an EFFECTIVE leader? □ Over the long term, yes it does. You can be an effective leader in the short term without an ethical compass, but once you have been discovered as a fraud, effectiveness goes out the window. There are
