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本帖最后由 chloelin 于 2009-8-6 22:49 编辑
TOPIC: ISSUE - "To be an effective leader, a public official must maintain the highest ethical and moral standards."
WORDS: 529
TIME: 00:43:47
DATE: 2009/8/6 22:42:57
Public officials are citizens selected to serve the common interest of people living in a nation. They are supposed to work for the benefits of other citizens and people always expect them to be paragons in ethics or moralities. However, being moral exemplars is in no way a necessary factor to make a good leader out of public officials.
First of all, in the world of politics, the way to appear good is much more important than really being good. In the phase of procuring power, a public official need not to be a saint in order to become an excellent leader. When it comes to ethical or moral issue, it is more about the art of propaganda instead of chastening the candidate to be a perfectly upright person. Usually due to the cruel competition faced by the public officials, when one gets the quality to participate in the election, he must have beaten lots of his competitors. It is hard to say someone who survived such a fierce competition and walked over so many "dead bodies" would still keeps high morality.
Now come the second phase of the power game, the way to utilize power. In order to work as an effective leader, many features are more desirable than high ethical or moral standard. Sometimes, high morality would even hurt the function of the real necessary characters, for example, machination. The essence of being a leader is to represent the interest of the group of people he stands for, and fight most for the collective interest for the people he leads. Leadership is actually the art to deal with people to make them help one achieve the final end. Being an effective leader requires a person to be a master of dealing with people. But with high moral standards does not make a leader good at interacting with people. Imagine a leader with perfect moral standard, who fails at communicating one's ideas to different kinds of surbordinates, at convincing people to agree with his great proposal of a new policy, at decisively find solutions to emergent problems. It is in no way necessary for a good leader to have the highest moral standards. Those rigid moral regulations might harm his ability to flexibly communicate with people, to adjust his strategies according the variant political environment, to persuade different kinds of people to become his followers. And most importantly, when it requires the leader to make a sharp all or none decision, the moral standards he held may delay the best timing to take actions.
Most of the time, a leader without the highest moral standards but with the mastery of earning good reputations, of manipulating people while they are not even aware of it, of understanding other people's situations and thoughts quickly therefore grabbing their weaknesses precisely, of coordinating his followers to work together harmoniously and effectively will be an effective one and earn lots of people's respect and panegyrics.
In sum, it is not necessary for a public official to maintain highest ethical a moral standards to be an effective leader. The art of being a good leader lies in the art of communication, management of public relations, manipulation and coordination of surbordinates. |
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