Marcelo Stamm

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Exceptional Leadership The Ethical Agenda

• Marcelo Stamm
• UTas, LMU Munich, VIU Venice

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• In Search of the Place of Leadership Ethics
• The PLACE of ETHICS
• The SPACE through ETHICS
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• In Search of the Place of Leadership Ethics
• The PLACE of ETHICS
• - Ethical value in goals and objectives
• - Ethical value in methods and means
• - Ethical value in intentions
• - Ethical value in outcomes objectively
• (- the invisible hand doctrine)
• - Ethical value in frame-work principles
• (- shaping the rules of the game
• cf. the monastic Rule)
• Distinction Institutional
  Individual Ethics

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• In Search of the Place of Leadership Ethics
• SOURCES OF THE ETHICAL
• - Tradition
• - Authority
• - Religiosity
• - Spirituality
• - Intuition

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• Ethical agency
• Source problems
• - the pressure of the habitual/routine
• - fear of the unknown (repetition of mistakes)
• - patterns of behaviour in closed systems
  (ethical psychosis)

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• - Cognition and Re-Cognition
• (Turner 2001)

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• In Search of the Place of Leadership Ethics
• SPACE through ETHICS
• - Wakefulness
• - Aspect- Seeing
• - Cognition and Re-Cognition
• - Sensitiveness to patterns
• - Sensitivity to differences
• - the ethics of the nuance

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• Transformative Agenda
• Descent of Reflex
• Reflex Confines of ethical reflex
• - instinctive reflex in stimulus
• and reaction scenarios (habitualised)
• (cf. flux of life rituals)
• Ascent of Reflection
• Reflective progression
• What have I done?
• What am I doing?
• Who am I doing this?
• What kind of person am I to do this?
• What kind of person does this?
• Do I want to be the kind of person who does this?

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• The key problem of Business Ethics
• Competition
• The key problem of Leadership Ethics?
• Domain/space of leadership?

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Purpose

• CREATING THE SPACE OF ETHICS
• En-abling
• - introducing moves which were not possible
  before
• En-nobling
• - transformation of the ethical self
• (E.g. professional ethics
• Medical Ethics
• Nursing Ethics,
• Police Ethics)

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Purpose

• CREATING AN ETHICS CULTURE
• Translation into an Agenda of Ethical
  Significance
• - Is there one ethically significant task/goal?
• - Is there one ethically significant method,
  means, technique
• - Is there one ethically significant attitude?

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• CULTURE OF LEADERSHIP IN AUSTRALIA
• _ Egalitarianism
• - Anti-Intellectualism?
• - Fair Go
• - Mateship
• - Anti-authoritarianism
• etc.

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• ETHICAL LEADERSHIP CULTURE
• Trust - Mistrust
• Courage/
• Confidence - Timidity
• Dignity - Humiliation

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• The real advance consists in having made some
  people feel more human.
• How do you measure that?
• How do you measure the amount of dignity that
  people accumulate?
• How do you quantify the disappearance of apathy?
  With which machines do you evaluate someones
  rediscovered identity, the power that they now
  feel to set their own goals and not merely take
  what others are willing to give? With what graphs
  would you chart the curves of increased memory,
  increased self-reliance, increased group
  solidarity, increased critical awareness?
• Ariel Dorfman 1984