Leadership Lessons from Our Class

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Leadership Lessons from Our Class
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Lesson I

• Lesson from Psychology
• People take SD, RD, GD, HD seriously (Kohlberg
  and Gilligan)
• Your stakeholders (and you) are likely to reason
  in all these ways
• Make and explain your decisions in these terms
• Leadership Hypothesis
• The more ethical dimensions you have at your
  disposal, the better leader you can be

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Lesson II

• Psychology and Organizations
• How you design incentive systems will affect how
  employees pursue SD, RD, GD, HD
• This, in turn, will affect productivity and
  reputation
• Procedural Fairness, HD, is crucial
• Leadership Hypothesis
• Designing incentive systems that reward all the
  ethical dimensions will be more effective than
  those that reward three or fewer.

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Lesson III

• Managers are social engineers leaders understand
  this.
• Create a culture that promotes all the Ds
• The decisions we make affect how employees, and
  you, can pursue SD, RD, GD, HD
• Leadership Hypothesis
• Leaders have a vision of what a healthy,
  integrated set of the ethical dimensions looks
  like and how it can be implemented

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Lesson IV

• Leadership
• In Praise of Middle Management
• Yes, but every position in an organization has
  aspects that can be leveraged to increase
  effectiveness and the four dimensions of ethics
• Tempered Radicals
• Yes, but what is radical is relative to what an
  organization is already doing
• Level 5 Leadership
• Ordinary people can attain great things if they
  work with others in goal oriented, disciplined
  ways

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Summary of Leadership Lessons

• The four Ds support sustainable leadership
• Effective incentive systems reward all the Ds
• Ethical leaders build a healthy 4D culture
• Leaders are people like you and me