ISSUE43 高道德水平与有效领导人【求拍，有拍必回】

爱上千年的猫UID: 2476232

TOPIC: ISSUE43 - "To be an effective leader, a public official must maintain the highest ethical and moral standards."
WORDS: 492
TIME: 00:45:00
DATE: 2010-3-14 17:02:41

If we conduct a survey about the ideal image of an effective leader, people would give various answers, including the executive ability, the ethical and moral standard, the credibility, or even the appearance and behavior. We can also observe these qualities in those successful leaders more or less. Therefore, the speaker's assertion that a public official must maintain the highest ethical and moral standards is overdue to some extent. Other qualities are also required to be an effective leader.

In my view, to determine whether a leader is effective, we shall first keep in mind what is the basic criteria should be applied. In a democratic society, a public official is aimed to accomplish certain work and act as a dynamic part in the chain to provide citizens with sufficient and satisfying services. Public officials are paid by the tax revenues from citizen so that they have the responsibility to service their people. We can not expect a public official to be an effective one when he can not accomplish his work, even if he maintains a high standard of ethics and morality. In short, as a public official, it is his first-hand responsibility to finish his work satisfactorily rather than being a man of highest ethical standards.

Consider Clinton, the former US president, for example. He has been viewed as one of the most successful leaders in the history of US by the majority of people, domestically and abroad. He fully took advantage of his great political and economic talents to bring America to a highly-booming economy, which stands in the top of world. Without Clinton, the United States would not be such a strong nation as it is today. Although the Sexual Scandal came up at his last incumbent years and destroyed the "perfect" image of President Clinton, especially his ethical and moral standards, we still treat him as a great leader who deserves our highest honor.

After all, the examples like President Clinton are rare. People still have their basic ethical requirements for their leaders, especially their political leaders, since they usually represent the positive images of the society. Their behavior in ethics can have great influence on the whole society, especially the youth. And any little mistakes made by the political leaders are likely to be exaggerated and cause bad effects among the youth, which in turn will lower the whole society's standards of ethical in the future. On the contrary, if the leaders exemplify as men of high ethical and moral standards, the people will adore them and imitate them thus create a better moral environment in the society.

In conclusion, high ethical and moral standards of public officials are necessary qualities to be effective leaders. However, many other qualities, like the executive ability, also determine whether a political leader is effective. After all, what they can do to their people is their first-hand responsibility. High ethical standards will help, but certain are not the determinant factor.

dingyi0311UID: 2627919

恩，很好，很清楚

adcolorsUID: 2256933

楼主的思路蛮清楚的。基本是：

1.Whether he/she is an effective leader depends on the definition of "effective leader", especially when talking about "public official" - a specific group of people.

2.给自己心目中的effective leader下定义。（反）

3.阐述人们对public official的基本期待，而成功是在实现基本职责的基础之上。（反）

4.然后举出比尔克林顿作为反例作出支撑。（反）

5.(虽然没有看到非常确切的让步，但可以理解作者的意思是让步的）但是，即使有克林顿这样的反例，我们还是必须将ethic 和morality放到很高的地位，基于讨论对象是"public official"这一特定人群。（正）

6.最后简单总结。

我个人的感想：

第一，MM稍微有一点点把effective和success划等号的意味，暂且不说美国人是不是真的绝大多数都认为比尔克林顿是个成功的总统。

第二，个人感觉题目越短，需要自己define的词条，界定清楚的逻辑关系就越多。我可能会把ethic and morality, public official, leader, effective 都定义一遍。
        随手wiki了下morality, 供你参考：http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morality

Morality has three principal meanings:

-In its "descriptive" sense, morality refers to personal or cultural values, codes of conduct or social mores that distinguish between right and wrong in the human society.

-In its "normative" sense, morality refers directly to what is right and wrong, regardless of what people think.

-Morality may also be defined as synonymous with ethics, the field that encompasses the above two meanings and others within a systematic philosophical study of the moral domain.

A key issue is the meaning of the terms "moral" or "immoral".


第三，我觉得举美国人非常熟悉的例子就得把准备功夫做得再足些，比尔克林顿因为丑闻下台，舆论到底如何评价他的功过，建议仔细查查资料，至少CNN这种官方媒体之类的论调是啥，因为个人感觉老美的道德观念其实挺保守的。还有话也别说那么绝对，如果极端的想，评判是一个猛烈抨击克林顿的人士，他可能不会觉得你的例子make sense.

第四，觉得整个论述还是不太comprehensive，因为mm的观点是“一个public official 的leader 是否effective跟好多东西有关，但是也不可否认ethic 有很大的作用。"观点很全面，但是论证的阐述和展开似乎还是薄弱了一点。

第五，一些细节，比如cannot中间没有空格，比如，我认为如果提到克林顿最好还是写全名吧（正好之前跟一个英语老师议论cite的时候什么情况下写一个人的全名，她老人家顺手举例就是bill gates and bill clinton.况且克林顿夫人目前也是一活跃人物。

顺便感谢一下，克林顿这个例子给了俺很大的启示，俺或许也会用，不过可能会多踩他老人家几脚……

sunersunUID: 2734987

楼主的思路我就不多说了，楼上说的很清楚。我主要是改正了一些语法和用词上的小错误，希望对楼主有用。If we conduct a survey about the ideal image of an effective leader, people would give various answers, including the executive ability, the ethical and moral standard, the credibility, or even the appearance and behavior. We can also observe these qualities in those successful leaders more or less. Therefore, the speaker's assertion that a public official must maintain the highest ethical and moral standards is overdue to some extent. Other qualities are also required to be an effective leader.

In my view, to determine whether a leader is effective, we shall first keep in mind what is the basic criteria(that在这里做主语应该不能省略吧） should be applied. In a democratic society, a public official is aimed to accomplish certain work and act（acts） as a dynamic part in the chain to（觉得不定式有点别扭，建议用从句吧）which） provide citizens with sufficient and satisfying services. Public officials are paid by the tax revenues from citizen（s） so that they have the responsibility to service（serve） their people. We can not expect a public official to be an effective one when he can not accomplish his work, even if he maintains a high standard of ethics and morality. In short, as a public official, it is his（or her，据说阅卷老师有可能是femenist，所以XDF老师建议多用HER） first-hand responsibility to finish his work satisfactorily rather than being a man of highest ethical standards.

Consider Clinton, the former US president, for（as an，consider sth as an eg是固定搭配） example. He has been viewed as one of the most successful leaders in the history of US by the majority of people, domestically and abroad. He fully took advantage of his great political and economic talents to bring America to a （time of）highly-booming economy, which（at which the USA） stands in the top of world. Without Clinton, the United States would not be such a strong nation as it is today（感觉有点过于绝对）. Although the Sexual Scandal came up at his last incumbent years and destroyed the "perfect" image of President Clinton, especially his ethical and moral standards（ethically and morally standarded image）, we still treat him as a great leader who deserves our highest honor（respect）.

After all, （the） example（s） like President Clinton are（is） rare. People still have their basic ethical requirements for their leaders, especially their political leaders, since they usually represent the positive images of the society. Their behavior（s) in ethics can have great influence on the whole society, especially（particularly，用词可以多些变化） the youth. And any little mistake（s ）made by the political leaders are（is） likely to be exaggerated and cause（s） bad effects among the youth, which in turn will lower the whole society's standards of ethical in the future. On the contrary, if the leaders exemplify as men of high ethical and moral standards, the people will adore them and imitate them thus create a better moral environment in the society.

In conclusion, high ethical and moral standards are necessary qualities （for public officials ）to be effective leaders. However, many other qualities, like（such as，like过于口语化） the executive ability, also determine whether a political leader is effective（or not）. After all, what they can do to（serve） their people is their first-hand responsibility. High ethical standards will help, but are certain not the determinant factor（s）.