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dear Claudia
you are very right and am in 100% agreement with you, one cant lead a team unless he or she behave those traits in him/ herself with true stream. Ram
Values and Ethics gives stronghold on one's impression on others. Values and ethics definitely pays a lot in terms of stability, popularity and also leaders have to project such a personality which consist of many things at the same time with greater temprament balance and high degree of intregity therefore leaders are more accountable to expose more prudent behaviour then their followers.
Person should justify his presence and participate in constructive way enable others to feel the magical leadership traits and also prosper the organization/communinity/ society at alrge.
P K MISHRA
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Values and ethics in your leadership style..... Challenge?
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Posted 09-10-2010Reply
Ethics and values go hand in hand. Leaders are role model for the people. They watch their leaders, may the leader be political or entrepreneur. People always observe them and get influenced by their behaviour? That is the reason, why leader has more accountability to exhibit the right behaviour than followers. Please read further on http://vinodtbidwaik.blogspot.com/2010/10/values-and-ethics-in-your-leadership.html
Thanks & Regards,
Vinod Bidwaik
Leaders usually have strong, charismatic personalities. That's one of the traits that make people folow them.
You're right...a leader without moral and ethical principles is a dangerous combination. Sometimes they get exposed, unmasked, if they're pretending and not practising what they're preaching. Other times they can become wrong models for easily influenced people.
You asked a question: "what is leadership without values?" and I think about personal value scale, who should be clearly defined and about moral values, ethical principles imposed by laws as well as common sense.
People are usually looking for models, for inspiration, for patterns and a leader has the responsibility of teaching them about the right values, helping them set a scale value of their own, based on equity, fairness, in accordance with the laws of the society they're part of.
You're right...a leader without moral and ethical principles is a dangerous combination. Sometimes they get exposed, unmasked, if they're pretending and not practising what they're preaching. Other times they can become wrong models for easily influenced people.
You asked a question: "what is leadership without values?" and I think about personal value scale, who should be clearly defined and about moral values, ethical principles imposed by laws as well as common sense.
People are usually looking for models, for inspiration, for patterns and a leader has the responsibility of teaching them about the right values, helping them set a scale value of their own, based on equity, fairness, in accordance with the laws of the society they're part of.
Leaders usually have strong, charismatic personalities. That's one of the traits that make peop... See Claudia's complete reply
dear Claudia
you are very right and am in 100% agreement with you, one cant lead a team unless he or she behave those traits in him/ herself with true stream. Ram
Values and Ethics gives stronghold on one's impression on others. Values and ethics definitely pays a lot in terms of stability, popularity and also leaders have to project such a personality which consist of many things at the same time with greater temprament balance and high degree of intregity therefore leaders are more accountable to expose more prudent behaviour then their followers.
Person should justify his presence and participate in constructive way enable others to feel the magical leadership traits and also prosper the organization/communinity/ society at alrge.
P K MISHRA
Remember the difference between a boss and a leader; a boss says "Go!" - a leader says "Let's go!" ~E.M. Kelly
Very nice Contribution Vinod. Be it in a corporate or in life either we would be leaders or followers. Both roles need to be performed efficiently and effectively. A leader gains power and such following only through the followers. So for me both are important. A leader with values and ethics will successfully contribute for generations and a leader without ethics and values is not only a bad influence on his/her followers but also will stop the growth for few years. Evil looks more attractive and requires less efforts to reach a desired result which would not last long. But good values look plain and simple but very difficult to follow and at the end the results grow tenfold and last for generations together. So its we who has to choose between Ethics and Evil and become a good leader and as well a follower.
Regards,
Sri Manjari.
Very nice Contribution Vinod. Be it in a corporate or in life either we would be leaders or followers. Both roles need to be performed efficiently and effectively. A leader gains power and such following only through the followers. So for me both are important. A leader with values and ethics will successfully contribute for generations and a leader without ethics and values is not only a bad influence on his/her followers but also will stop the growth for few years. Evil looks more attractive and requires less efforts to reach a desired result which would not last long. But good values look plain and simple but very difficult to follow and at the end the results grow tenfold and last for generations together. So its we who has to choose between Ethics and Evil and become a good leader and as well a follower.
Regards,
Sri Manjari.
Hello Vinod
Yes it is true that leaders should "walk the walk" and not just "talk the talk" but you do a great disservice to the followers in this article.
You say "People always observe them and get influenced by their behaviour". This is a sweeping and dismissive statement effectively writing off those who support a leader as mere reflections of that leader. People actively and repeatedly choose to follow, they do this for a variety of reasons, often based on a spectrum of values and ethics not related to those of the Leader. As Clauidia points out some may be swept up by the Charisma projected by a leader. Yet you will find others may choose to follow because of the leader's family connections or their avowed religion, the future they promise, or their track record in the past. Approximately 80% of all followers don't know and don't care about the values and ethics of the leader and will base their choice to follow on some other factor(s).
Good Followership is as important as good Leadership to successful organisations and just difficult a skill-set to master. As with Leadership involves a well developed EQ and a strong sense of personal value and one’s personal values, a tolerance for dissonance – times when the values of the leader do not accurately reflect one’s personal values – without feeling one’s self-worth threatened and above all it requires a critical facility which allows the follower to criticise and where it becomes necessary leave the leader. This last skill avoids poor leaders being followed for long. The excuse sometimes used that “I did it because I was told to” has no place in Followership, the follower is as responsible for the outcomes as the leader. They should be two halves of an effective efficient whole.
Neil
Yes it is true that leaders should "walk the walk" and not just "talk the talk" but you do a great disservice to the followers in this article.
You say "People always observe them and get influenced by their behaviour". This is a sweeping and dismissive statement effectively writing off those who support a leader as mere reflections of that leader. People actively and repeatedly choose to follow, they do this for a variety of reasons, often based on a spectrum of values and ethics not related to those of the Leader. As Clauidia points out some may be swept up by the Charisma projected by a leader. Yet you will find others may choose to follow because of the leader's family connections or their avowed religion, the future they promise, or their track record in the past. Approximately 80% of all followers don't know and don't care about the values and ethics of the leader and will base their choice to follow on some other factor(s).
Good Followership is as important as good Leadership to successful organisations and just difficult a skill-set to master. As with Leadership involves a well developed EQ and a strong sense of personal value and one’s personal values, a tolerance for dissonance – times when the values of the leader do not accurately reflect one’s personal values – without feeling one’s self-worth threatened and above all it requires a critical facility which allows the follower to criticise and where it becomes necessary leave the leader. This last skill avoids poor leaders being followed for long. The excuse sometimes used that “I did it because I was told to” has no place in Followership, the follower is as responsible for the outcomes as the leader. They should be two halves of an effective efficient whole.
Neil
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