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

As an effective leader, is it necessary to maintain the highest ethical and moral standards? This issue has become the people’s focus of attention with the rapid development of society. People’s opinion, however, are divergent on such a complex and controversial issue. Some people claim that there is no highest ethical and moral satndards and there would be no effective leaders. Others point out that an effective leader should be in possession of a high ethical and moral standards, but not the highest. Personally, the final judgement should depend on the case-by-case analysis.

On one hand, each leader is the core of his or her group and organization. The destiny of the groups or the organizations are determined by their leaders. A real leader with high ethical and moral standards is never selfish, avarice, and lechery etc.. They always take into acount the interests of the majority of people in their groups he leads or delegates rather than their own interests. They even give up their interests sometime in order to satisfy the demand of the majority of the people in the groups. History is replete evidences to illustrate this point. Notable figures just like Davy Crockett and James Bowie, the folk hero of American culture, are the representation who can be effective leaders. In the battle of Alamo they didn’t escape but fighted till the last second. Did they fight to win welfare for themselves till losing their lives? Absolutely ont. It is the high ethical and moral standards in their mind that lead them make the eventual right decision. And nowadays the prosperity of America is still ralted to the leadership of those heros like them two. In the business realm the spirits of every outstanding company are the reflection of their leaders. There is no doubt that great companies own aggressive leaders who maintain high ethical and moral standards. For instance, Jack Welch is a successful leader of the GE company; Bill Gates is not only a moneybags but is the great leader of Microsoft. Not only do they provide advanced tecnology to the whole world but change the entire daily life of the people all over the word. That is the real thing that a leader with high ethical and moral standards should do.

On the other hand, as mentioned in the film Spider-Man, with great power comes great responsibility. Leaders who lose their ethical and moral standards should do harm to not only themselves individual but also the society as a whole. A selfish leader may wield his or her power abusively while a avarice leader may take advantage of his power to obtain lawless benefits. All these leaders will lose the confidence of their advocates and fall down eventually. The watergate scandal is a good instance. In order to get information of reelection, president Nixon took some wrong action which is unethical and immoral. His dishonest
and improper operation makes him the first president in American history who resigned during his term of President. Another typical example is Adolf Hitler who results in the third World War. As a result of his rapacity and some other wrong thoughts he brought German into abyss. Leaders of a government may cause catastrophe if they throw away ethical and moral standards.

Otherwise, as a popular saying goes, “Every man hath his weak side.” So requiring every leaders maintaining a highest ethical and moral standards is unreliable. In fact it is also hard to define the highest ethical and moral standards. So when we assess our leaders, we should put our insight to the comprehensive effect of all aspects rather than the only one point.

In sum, a leader with high ethical and moral standards will be more popular in the future. And our society needs such leaders to improve the whole construction of all facets.

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