Meeting the Ethical Challenges of Leadership Quotes

“Conformity is a problem for many small groups. Members put a higher priority on cohesion than on coming up with a well-reasoned choice. They pressure dissenters, shield themselves from negative feedback, keep silent when they disagree ...”
― Craig E. Johnson, Meeting the Ethical Challenges of Leadership: Casting Light or Shadow

“Bad leaders make life miserable for those who must work for them,” the Hogans note. “By developing methods of identifying bad managers we can help alleviate some of the unnecessary suffering of the working class.”
― Craig E. Johnson, Meeting the Ethical Challenges of Leadership: Casting Light or Shadow

“also increases my capacity to choose the desirable alternative, until eventually it becomes more difficult to choose the undesirable rather than the desirable action. On the other hand, each act of surrender and cowardice weakens me, opens the path for more acts of surrender, and eventually freedom is lost. Between the extreme when I can no longer do a wrong act and the other extreme when I have lost my freedom to right action, there are innumerable degrees of freedom of choice. In the practice of life the degree of freedom to choose is different at any given moment. If the degree of freedom to choose the good is great, it needs less effort to choose the good. If it is small, it takes a great effort, help from others, and favorable circumstances.8”
― Craig E. (Edward) Johnson, Meeting the Ethical Challenges of Leadership: Casting Light or Shadow