ETHICS
Surprise everyone by doing the morally right thing
The time has come to expect right and do right, not occasionally but all the time
KPMG, McKinsey, Eskom, the Gupta brothers, President Jacob Zuma’s 783 habits of leaders who routinely dodge corruption, fraud and racketeering. Further afield, there are diesel-emission scandals, Japanese steel maker Kobe Steel’s admission that it faked inspection data for a decade and Harvey Weinstein. What has happened to trust, honesty, integrity, conscience and moral fibre? How in this age of fact checkers and global connectivity are leaders of countries and corporations getting away with such dishonest behaviour? Have we reached the age where it is okay for leaders to blatantly lie and pursue personal means-end tactics instead of working for the public good? Have they become so self-deluded and so devoid of honesty and ethics that they no longer recognise when they are lying or cheating? In an article in the Harvard Business Review, Laura Nash, who is a consultant in business ethics and leadership and former Harvard Business School lecturer, listed 12 questions for examining th...
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