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本帖最后由 selinashen 于 2010-7-8 09:36 编辑

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

It is not a surprise that Obama's annomination as the Nobel prize winner has sparked debate in the US. People question the incumbent president when healthcare reform confronted impendement in congress.
Some believe his black identity brings him luck, and his master skills in public speaking attribute to this high prestige honor. Among all kinds of applauds and doubts, there is one thing for sure that Obama's ethics and moral standards have been well recognized otherwise Nobel committee would not dare to grant this award to the new president of America. Compared with former president such as Bill Cliton or even Bush, Obama's experience as civil rights lawyer and his non-scandal in personal life, to some extent, proved his characteristics and belief.

Ethical and moral standards are extremely important to political officials, since these are the rudimentary factors in winning the trust from the citizens. Difference between public officials and other kinds of jobs is that working in the area of politics demands a person with high conviction to serve people. Great power comes with great responsibilities. Public officials possess more power than the ordinary people: the power to legislation and enforce laws. When practicing the power bestowed from people, public officials would face more temptations from the evil or threat from their rivals. At these critical times, ethics and moral standard, in the name of conscience, would exert enormous influence on official’s decision making process. What engrained in one's mind would expressed by one's behavior. An official holding the highest ethical and moral standards would navigate his own actions toward the right path; his actions would influence the political path. Who would ever vote for a president denying his affair in public when his personal life's scandal has been disclosed. Who would ever bestow trusts on the public official if his permission on the newly built chemical factory has threaten hundreds of habitants lives in danger. Highest ethical and moral standards are the prime requisite to be a good leader, since what the leader achieves inwardly will change outer reality, wherein the reality is not just personal but it is much more national.

Unlike other characters that define a good leader, "effectiveness" demands much more which is beyond merely personal characteristics. To be an effective leader, one must have the leaderships ability which encompasses courage, wisdom and vision.

Courage as well as the willing to take risks is the prime criteria to assess a leader's mental strength to reform in times of adversities or distress. During the Great Depression, President Roosevelt leaded the New Deal, in which stressed the importance of government's interference on market. In a country of sadness and diffidence at that moment, he perceived the value of entertainment to make people laugh and live up people's spirit; President Roosevelt unprecedentedly appointed a Broadway entainer as the House Communication official and supported actors such as "Shirely Tempo" to laugh and dance in public. Wisdom and courage are the key ingredient in leadership. Even a leader had merely possessed the highest ethical and moral standard at such time as economic depression, he or she would not have leaded the whole nation out of the national setback.

Added to these characteristics would be another factor which would boost the leadership into a broader scope: the ability to envision. In striking a balance between short-term and long-term interest of his public organization, an effective leader knows how to invest and invent, how to unleash the imagination of the people and work with them to create a future on the basis of imagination at the beginning.

Aside from intellectual competence, an effective leader needs to know, in parenthesis, how to listen people's opinion and communicate with them in an effective and inspiring way. Rhetoric skills exert increasing influence on public debate when Television and Internet become the prime media in informing people with political news; people vote for their favorite leaders on the basis of leaders behaviors, as well as eloquence. After all, Barack Obama did not win that presidential campaign just because of his audacious hope; his master skills in communicating with people and arousing people's spirit are unquestionable strength to win in the presidential campaign.

Hitherto, what we can expect from an effective leader is not merely the highest ethical and moral standards. Courage and wisdom are the key for the leader to lead; rhetoric skills are lubricants for the leader to be effective.