ISSUE NO.43 【六人行】by CrazyJoO

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TOPIC: ISSUE43 - "To be an effective leader, a public official must maintain the highest ethical and moral standards."
WORDS: 579
TIME: 00:53:40
DATE: 2010-7-30 22:24:33



Are the highest ethical and moral necessary for a public official to be an effective leader as the speaker claims? I concede that ethical and moral do play an important role in one's leadership. However, it is the ability to lead not the highest ethnical and moral standard that make a truly effective leader.

Admittedly, few people would deny that they hope to be led by a person with high ethical and moral since everyone has been taught to pursue such valuable characteristics since childhood. The impact of moral is influential and far-reaching. Thus, people tend to simulate the behavior of people who with high moral standards. And one of the most crucial features of an effective leader is his/her influence. A leader who spread his/her thoughts, and who make all the people believe what his/her believe and finally approach to the ultimate goal collectively. In this respect, a effective leader must maintain high ethical and moral standards, especially the leader's objectives have such to do with ethical and moral themselves, such as headmasters, leaders of education organization and so forth.

However, although moral and ethical are important to a leader's influence, in my view, an effective leader is determined by his/her capacity to encourage, to lead and to cheerlead. For one thing, no one is supposed to maintain highest ethical and moral standards. We are realistic people but not the saints like Jesus or Confucius. Therefore, it is naive and unrealistic to say the a leader is not an effective one until he/she can maintain the highest ethical and moral standard. For another thing, even a person can maintain the highest ethical and moral standards, he/she might not the one who can meet the demand of an effective leader today, which is more tough and complex than that of ancient leaders who were usually the embodiment of ethical and moral. Does the ability to advocate one's belief has muchto do with highest ethical standard? Or does the diplomat skills has much to do with highest moral standard? Can one person with highest moral standard necessarily sway the mass to stick to one belief and walk together toward one goal?We cannot say no to all these questions, but we can say yes to a idea that, many other characters seem to be more important than highest ethical standards.

Over nations and history, we can see eminent leaders who have flaws in moral standard. One example aptly illustrates this point involved Martin Luther King---the pioneer of American human rights, who sparked the bus boycott and finally annihilate the Apartheid. During the bus boycott, blacks risked being fired by his/her employer since they followed Marin Luther King's commands and refused to take bus. It is hard for a person merely with high moral standard to maintain this great campaign. Through influential and effective speeches, Martin Luther King instilled sense of coherent and strong belief to every black’s heart. Only under the leadership of such an King, who is good at encouraging and grasping what people mostly concern about, blacks begain to gather all their nerve to stand up and express their dissatisfaction. However, we cannot ignore the sexual scandals of this celebrity. Will these scandals undermine King's leadership? Sure not. A person who maintains the highest sexual moral standards can hardly be another effective leader as King was.

To sum up, to maintain the highest ethical and moral standard is advisable but not necessary for a leader; after all, it is more of his/her capacity rather than his/her moral lead the citizens.

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Are the highest ethical and moral necessary for a public official to be an effective leader as the speaker claims? I concede that ethical and moral do play an important role in one's leadership. However, it is the ability to lead not the highest ethnical and moral standard that makes a truly effective leader.

Admittedly, few people would deny that they hope to be led by a person with high ethical and moral since everyone has been taught to pursue such valuable characteristics since childhood. 这个论点很好The impact of moral is influential and far-reaching. Thus, people tend to simulate the behavior of people who with high moral standards. 这句放在这里有点突兀，可能因为这句主语是people,下句主语是leader.要不然在展开一下再用逻辑明确点的词转到影响力上And one of the most crucial features of an effective leader is his/her influence. A leader who spread his/her thoughts, and who make all the people believe what his/her believe and finally approach to the ultimate goal collectively. In this respect, an effective leader must maintain high ethical and moral standards; especially the leader's objectives have such to do with ethical and moral themselves, such as headmasters, leaders of education organization and so forth.

However, although moral and ethical are important to a leader's influence, in my view, an effective leader is determined by his/her capacity to encourage, to lead and to cheerlead. For one thing, no one is supposed to maintain highest ethical and moral standards. We are realistic people but not the saints like Jesus or Confucius. 嗯 金无足赤，人无完人。你的段首都很到位，学习Therefore, it is naive and unrealistic to say the a leader is not an effective one until he/she can maintain the highest ethical and moral standard. For another thing, even a person can maintain the highest ethical and moral standards, he/she might not the one who can meet the demand of an effective leader today, which is more tough and complex than that of ancient leaders who were usually the embodiment of ethical and moral. Does the ability to advocate one's belief has much to do with highest ethical standard? Or does the diplomat skills has much to do with highest moral standard? Can one person with highest moral standard necessarily sway the mass to stick to one belief and walk together toward one goal? We cannot say no to all these questions, but we can say yes to a idea that, many other characters seem to be more important than highest ethical standards.
逻辑清晰，滴水不漏，相当雄辩呢
Over nations and history, we can see eminent leaders who have flaws in moral standard. One example aptly illustrates this point involved Martin Luther King---the pioneer of American human rights, who sparked the bus boycott and finally annihilate the Apartheid. During the bus boycott, blacks risked being fired by his/her employer since they followed Marin Luther King's commands and refused to take bus. It is hard for a person merely with high moral standard to maintain this great campaign. Through influential and effective speeches, Martin Luther King instilled sense of coherent and strong belief to every black’s heart. Only under the leadership of such an King, who is good at encouraging and grasping what people mostly concern about, blacks begain to gather all their nerve to stand up and express their dissatisfaction. However, we cannot ignore the sexual scandals of this celebrity. Will these scandals undermine King's leadership? Sure not. A person who maintains the highest sexual moral standards can hardly be another effective leader as King was.
嗯。这个例子用得不是很简练，前面的议论都没有例子，这一整段抛出一个例子，感觉到最后有点仓促了。
其实也不要说品行与领导力没有关系那么肯定的话，你可以把你上面不能强求每个人都是道德模范这个论点扩展点，比如一些小的瑕疵能让政治任务更加有亲和力，不会那么遥不可及。
我想起的一个例子：当年尼克松还因为狗惹上了麻烦，差点断送了政治前程，意想不到的是，最后结束这场风波的竟然还是那只引起事端的小狗。当时竞选双方都在挖空心思寻找对方的缺点和毛病，以作为击败对方的利器。尼克松的对手终于找到一件足可让尼克松退出政坛的罪状：尼克松曾利用职权接受贿赂！消息传出，舆论一片哗然。
　　面对媒体和选民，尼克松显得十分激动，在他身后，站着妻子孩子一大家子，美国人很重视家庭，不会选一个孤家寡人当总统。尼克松大声说道，有人说我受贿，不错，我的确受了贿。但是，我接受了什么贿赂呢？他一转身，从女儿手中接过一只小狗，双手举到众人面前，提高嗓音继续说道，就是这只可爱的小狗！我是否应当把它退还呢？当然应该，但是我绝对不会这么去做！因为我们一家人都很喜欢它，它已经成为我们家的一个成员！人们一看到那只可爱的小狗和这和谐的一家人，什么都谅解了，纷纷说道，让他们继续拥有这只小狗吧！从此再也没有人提起贿赂这件事。
To sum up, to maintain the highest ethical and moral standard is advisable but not necessary for a leader; after all, it is more of his/her capacity rather than his/her moral lead the citizens.

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2# thisisyishu

恩。。主要是大致列了一下思路。。例子都是临时想到的。。时间紧迫十分仓促。

不禁害怕考场上还要现场选题破题写提纲想例子 -。-

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Moreover, sometime moral ehical and moral flaws can make the leaders more approachable and hence facilitate their leadership. Common people tend to regard the leaders as elites of the society. The great achievements they accomplished and the significant decisions they made make people think that those leaders are living in a world which is disparate from the society the populace lives. It is therefore not strange to see that the approval rate of Bill Clinton increase after his sexual scandels with Liionski. By recognizing the flaws of the president who they used to consider as a perfect one, populcace  begin to have a more comprehensive understanding of Bill Clinton. People may think  "Bill is also a common guy as us" and "Bill must also pay attention to what we are concern about".  In this respect, moral flaws would not hurt the leadership but in turn enhance the connection between the leader and the populace.

粗略写了一下 好建议！