Issue43【0710G Victors互助小组】第6次作业

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


Whether a public official have to maintain the highest ethical and moral standards in order to become an effective leader, as the speaker inclined? In my view, the author has leaded the statement to some extreme, which make it partial. I concede that in the political area, it is necessary for the official to maintain the highest ethical and moral standards, while it is just the opposed in the commercial area.  

As is known to all, a political leader should make every effort to establish and insist on the policy which could make sure that his\her country will be more prosperous and develop in the right direction as well as his\her nation will live more comfortable, which could hardly succeed without high ethical and moral consciousness. China is one of the biggest countries in the world with the largest population of more than 1.2 billion that belongs to 56 nations, in which Han is the overwhelming majority. Mao Zedong, the first chairman of China immediately propose to establish a policy that advocate equality as soon as he find that there was huge discrimination among the Hans towards the people of other nations. Besides, he also made special policy for the minority which helps them to thrive. These seemingly insignificant policies made all Chinese people more united and got through the tough period of the early years when the nation was founded. In the opposed, Hitler, who was full of ambition rather than ethical and moral consciousness and disregarded all the other nations, especially the Jews nearly destroyed the world leaving only notorious name. So ethical and moral standards are must for an effective leader.

While in business area, I have to say that it is just a method or superficial format for a leader to consider ethical and moral factor. In this drastic competing world, it is increasingly difficult for a company to survive. It is no doubt that any businessman put the profit in the first place, and he\she will do whatever to get as much of it as possible, as long as within the rule of the game. It is possible that a business leader should deal with ethical or moral affairs, but they are all positive. Imagine, were any factory to spend the high extra money to handle the waste which could do harm to the denizens without the restrain of the law? The main judgment on a businessman is the efficiency rather than ethical and moral factors.

In sum, ethical and moral standards are necessary just in certain areas to make an effective leader, such as political area. In other realm as business, they are not as necessary as in the former areas. A leader could be effective for his efficiency even though he might not possess those high ethical and moral standards.