Issue43 FLY AW小组个人习作（465字）

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Issue43  第7篇 让砖头来得更猛烈些吧！
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作者：寄托家园作文版普通用户     共用时间：86分47秒     204 words
从2006年6月18日12时16分到2006年6月18日13时86分
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To be an effective leader, a public official must maintain the highest ethical and moral standards.
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I agree with the speaker insofar that an effective leader, who is able to lead the staff to success efficiently, has to maintain considerable ethical and moral standards. However, it is unnecessary, or even harmful, for such a public official to preserve the highest ethics and morality.

On one hand, to be an effective leader, a public official has to demonstrate necessary ethical and moral standards, so as to establish credibility and authority among the allies, the staff, and ordinary residents. While credibility ensures supplies from the allies, loyalty from the staff, and support from ordinary citizens, authority indicates assistance of the allies, obedience of the staff, and cooperativeness of ordinary inhabitants. Credibility and authority serve as two significantly remarkable factors influencing the working efficiency of a team, a group, or an organization, which determines the effectiveness of a leader, and a leader cannot receive necessary credibility and authority without maintaining certain ethics and morality. Can an alternative president, who frequently changes attitudes according to temporary profits, establish credibility among foreign countries? Can a cruel officer, who always punishes the underling unreasonably, gain loyalty from the staff? Or can a brutal official, who never considers the living conditions as well as affordability of common citizens, obtain support from the inhabitants? Obviously the answers are no. As a result, a public official without necessary ethics and morality cannot become an effective leader.

On the other hand, it is unnecessary, or even harmful, for an effective leader to maintain the highest ethical and moral standards, including the highest honesty, kindness, and affability. Human society is not a harmony, but a coexistence of cooperation and confliction. Any teams, groups, or organizations unavoidably have allies together with adversaries. In order to survive and succeed in the confliction with adversaries, the teams, groups, and organizations have to establish efficient plans and necessary disciplines, which also determine the effectiveness of a leader.
Although deceiving others is not ethical, cheating adversaries is able to minimize the expenses of allies. Although killing others is away from morality, fighting against enemies is crucial to protect local residents. Although punishing others is more or less cruel, allowing betrayal or dereliction will induce unimaginable damage and destruction. Therefore, it is difficult, or even impossible, for a public official preserving the highest ethics and morality to defeat the adversaries, protect the profits of allies, lead the staff to success, or prevent the living conditions of ordinary citizens from being destroyed.

In conclusion, to be an effective leader, a public official has to maintain necessary ethics and morality to establish credibility and authority, but it is dangerous to pursue the highest ethical and morality standards, because such a leader is unable to defeat adversaries and ensure the survival as well as success of the staff.