5 The importance of ethics and morals in a leader's development

Sergio Ernesto Medina-Cuéllar

DOI: 10.4324/9781003371335-5

Leadership as art

In accordance of one of its definitions, let us consider art as that set of rules and knowledge to do something well or develop a specific activity. We face the fact that leading can be regarded as an art that finds its greater domain expression when ethics is the predominant feature in the expression of the works that result from this activity, as well as the different tendencies or styles of the same.

Ethical leadership is the best expression of the art of being a leader. As occurs with aesthetic expressions, it has different degrees of mastery in which, with various techniques and tools, it recreates ...

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