Across large and small organizations in the jungle called Corporate America, management struggles with making the quarterly numbers that wall street is looking for, the only score card that matters as it would seem.
Very little is understood of the makeup of the leadership that has been put in charge. Understood from a standpoint of their moral and ethical qualities that is.
Much similar is the landscape on the local to state to the federal government leadership positions where 'Abuse/Misuse of Power' seems to be an undisclosed feature of the position in question and the only runway one has to navigate is the one that lasts till the next election.
It is not easy being moral or ethical. Neither is leadership. To be a true leader requires that these qualities be inherent as one would think.
Oddly all of these positions of power are elected or so it would appear; and so to an extent the people in a democracy deserve what they get.
Shame on us then?
So the question of late that my workshop has been pondering is this -
Are we getting to a point where our naivety trumps our logic and rationale; or are we just becoming more lazy and do not want to perform the due diligence that we need to ensure that these very qualities continue to retain an iota of their actual meaning?
Many of the recent brand (names) whether in private or public office have shown us that being famous is a double edged sword. You can continue to be famous for all the wrong reasons.
Then again if you were to evaluate the before and after ('faux pas') for all those high fliers who once came across as the epitome of success, we would find that their lifestyles did not drastically change. i.e. no repurcussion for their misstep.
Not a good lesson to teach our kids!
Very little is understood of the makeup of the leadership that has been put in charge. Understood from a standpoint of their moral and ethical qualities that is.
Much similar is the landscape on the local to state to the federal government leadership positions where 'Abuse/Misuse of Power' seems to be an undisclosed feature of the position in question and the only runway one has to navigate is the one that lasts till the next election.
It is not easy being moral or ethical. Neither is leadership. To be a true leader requires that these qualities be inherent as one would think.
Oddly all of these positions of power are elected or so it would appear; and so to an extent the people in a democracy deserve what they get.
Shame on us then?
So the question of late that my workshop has been pondering is this -
Are we getting to a point where our naivety trumps our logic and rationale; or are we just becoming more lazy and do not want to perform the due diligence that we need to ensure that these very qualities continue to retain an iota of their actual meaning?
Many of the recent brand (names) whether in private or public office have shown us that being famous is a double edged sword. You can continue to be famous for all the wrong reasons.
Then again if you were to evaluate the before and after ('faux pas') for all those high fliers who once came across as the epitome of success, we would find that their lifestyles did not drastically change. i.e. no repurcussion for their misstep.
Not a good lesson to teach our kids!
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