FOUR FACTS FOR LEADERS

Number: 13 May 1, 2012
  • Vincent Luizzi
  • Metin Bal
EN TR

FOUR FACTS FOR LEADERS

Abstract

I wish to identify four interrelated propositions about leaders which have significance for thinking about leadership and leadership in Africa. The first two draw on the extremes represented by villains and heroes with the first asserting that an unjust leader is no leader at all and the second, that a leader is a role model. Insofar as communication is essential to successful role modeling, a leader is good at dialogue. And fourth, I will show why leaders are not professionals and how this insight gives the public a legitimate claim on what their leaders should know. As I elucidate and establish these four claims, I do so as from the perspective of a professional ethicist and wish to inform leadership ethics with insights from this field much as Joanne Ciulla has introduced ethics to leadership as its heart. (Ciulla, 2004). In considering the field of leadership studies, she has noted the paucity of ethical theories, stressed the need for them, and looked favorably upon some of them like “transforming leadership” and “servant leadership.” She expresses frustration over the time scholars have devoted to defining leadership and to conducting empirical research to help us understand the nature of leaders. If she issues a call for the introduction of ethics to leadership studies, I would distinguish my contribution as a call to import some of the wisdom from the ever-growing field of professional ethics to leadership studies.

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English

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Authors

Vincent Luizzi This is me

Metin Bal This is me

Publication Date

May 1, 2012

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Published in Issue

Year 2012 Number: 13

Chicago
Luizzi, Vincent, and Metin Bal. 2012. “FOUR FACTS FOR LEADERS”. FLSF Felsefe Ve Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, nos. 13: 233-60. https://izlik.org/JA75NM28CT.

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