8. Ethics, Trust, Cooperation, and Leadership

Ethical Responsibilities (Rion)

• Ethical obligations

  • Proactive
    • Do no harm
    • Keep promises
    • Act fairly, etc.
  • Corrective
    • Compensate for self-caused harms
  • Responsive (“Kew Gardens”): correct injury caused by others
    • Need
    • Proximity
    • Capability
    • Risk or cost
    • Last resort

• Voluntary “good deeds”: actions beyond the call of duty

  • Philanthropy
  • Other good acts

“The Corporate Climber Has to Find His Heart” (Maccoby)

• Four management styles: the craftsman, the jungle fighter, the company man, the gamesman

• Head vs. heart

  • Gamesmen tend to neglect heart in pursuit of their careers (sacrifice capacity to develop values beyond winning the game)
  • Heart is the combination of compassion and courage

• Heart is important to:

  • Sense of self worth
  • Leadership (especially of creative people in complex situations)

• Work and careers develop head, not heart, which hurts:

  • Leadership
  • Development of values
  • Sense of self worth and identity (which in turn hurts the family)

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