Leading With Character

The challenges we confront every day to remain true to our deepest values and finest character are common to all of us as leaders. Each of us desires to rise above our parochial self-interest and become a true servant leader whose ethical and moral character is beyond reproach, but we struggle mightily to do so. Leading With Character offers a succinct plan for strengthening your character as a leader:

• Expose the ingenious ways leaders knowingly and unknowingly cross moral lines to get their personal wants and needs met.
• Prevent leaders from defaulting into reflexive, automatic moral decisions by raising awareness of the process they are using to render a moral decision.
• Provide leaders with a proven method for constructing a robust Personal Credo which will become the ultimate source code for vetting all their ethical and moral decisions.

The program presented in this book, along with the accompanying journal, provides a practical method that could be used to build and maintain a robust personal morality system for leaders to address inherent flaws in their operating systems.

Foreword                                                                                                                    

Introduction

1. What Does “Leading With Character” Mean?

2. Why Good Leaders Are Vulnerable to Corruption: A Flawed Morality System

3. Who Is the True Architect of Our Character?

4. Who Are We Becoming In the Chase to the Top?

5. The Bricks and Mortar of Credo-Building

6. Embedding Your Personal Credo and Supporting It With Habits

7. How Leaders Become Heroes

Appendices

Endnotes

References & Related Readings

Index

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