Issue 43 【7\8\9\10】 7.28(第八次作业)

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Issue 43: To be an effective leader, a public official must maintain the highest ethical and moral standards.

While it is true that to be an effective leader, one should discipline himself with high ethical and moral standards which are two types of leadership values, it is unfair and impracticable to ask a public official maintain the highest ethical and moral standards.

Surely, for a person being a leader, maintaining high ethical standards is crucial for his leadership because the leader embodied with ethical virtues such as honesty, integrity, trustworthiness, reliability, reciprocity, accountability and other “Ten Commandments” rules of personal conduct , has the great influence to the public. If the leader who confront the ethical discipline and act in a way that violates his obligation and any sense of right or wrong, he is doomed to be castigated and blamed, and the leadership will be given up in any way. For example, Gov. Eliot Spitzer, whose rise to political power as a fierce enforcer of ethics in public life was undone by revelations of his own involvement with prostitutes, resigned and apologized to the public, becoming the first New York governor to leave office amid scandal in nearly a century.

Moreover, the high moral values such as order (or security), liberty, equality, justice, community also are the fundamental requirement for the effective leader. The leader manages the group, the company, or the country for the purpose of the whole members’ profits and happiness. They will gain honor and respect in return when the achievements of liberty, equality and justice are realized. Adolf Hitler is a leader of counterexample, who has a terrible moral standard: personally cruel and vindictive, politically duplicitous and treacherous, ideologically vicious and annihilative in his aims. He left Germany a smoking devastated land and the world into a combat filed.

However, the leaders do not need always to follow the highest ethical and moral standards. We live in a world where leaders are often morally disappointing. Meticulous biographers sometimes diminish the image of great leaders such as Martin Luther King and George Washington by probing their ethical shortcomings. It’s difficult to have heroes in a world where every wart and winkle of a person’s life is public. The more defective the leaders, the greater our longing to have highly ethical leaders.

In conclusion, from the discussion above, we could assert that although to be an effective leader, a public official need to discipline him strictly. Yet, it is too realistic to require the leader to maintain the highest ethical and moral standards for no man is perfect.

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While it is true that to be an effective leader, one should discipline himself with high ethical and moral standards which are two types of leadership values, (but) it is unfair and impracticable to ask a public official maintain the highest ethical and moral standards.

Surely, for a person being a leader, maintaining high ethical standards is crucial for his leadership because the leader embodied with ethical virtues such as honesty, integrity, trustworthiness, reliability, reciprocity, accountability and other “Ten Commandments” rules of personal conduct , has the great influence to the public. If the leader who confront the ethical discipline and act in a way that violates his obligation and any sense of right or wrong, he is doomed to be castigated and blamed, and the leadership will be given up in any way. For example, Gov. Eliot Spitzer, whose rise to political power as a fierce enforcer of ethics in public life was undone by revelations of his own involvement with prostitutes, resigned and apologized to the public, becoming the first New York governor to leave office amid scandal in nearly a century.

Moreover, the high moral values such as order (or security), liberty, equality, justice, community also are the fundamental requirement for the effective leader. The leader manages the group, the company, or the country for the purpose of the whole members’ profits and happiness. They will gain honor and respect in return when the achievements of liberty, equality and justice are realized. Adolf Hitler is a leader of counterexample, who has a terrible moral standard: personally cruel and vindictive, politically duplicitous and treacherous, ideologically vicious and annihilative in his aims. He left Germany a smoking devastated land and the world into a combat filed.

However, the leaders do not need always to follow the highest ethical and moral standards. We live in a world where leaders are often morally disappointing. Meticulous biographers sometimes diminish the image of great leaders such as Martin Luther King and George Washington by probing their ethical shortcomings. It’s difficult to have heroes in a world where every wart and winkle of a person’s life is public. The more defective the leaders, the greater our longing to have highly ethical leaders.(这段的篇幅感觉有点少，要是你反对highest moral，应该在这段再加重笔墨，个人意见)

In conclusion, from the discussion above, we could assert that although to be an effective leader, a public official need to discipline him strictly. Yet, it is too realistic to require the leader to maintain the highest ethical and moral standards for no man is perfect.