Rethinking Leadership

Chapter 8

Moral person, moral leader, moral organization

For a leader to be trusted, he or she must, of necessity, be a moral person by character, attitudes and activities. Dealing with others one to one or in a large organization always raises the question of conditio humana, which is the concern about human nature and how humans live their lives. The sense of morality and its rationalization need to be adapted to the condition of life: there will always be an interplay between morality and the characteristics, key events, and situations which compose the essentials of human existence. In this, morality and law, which also governs how we live, are closely related. Both deal with questions of justice and want to establish a just world in accordance ...