1. MAKING TOUGH CHOICES
ETHICS IN LEADERSHIP
DR. CASTRUITA

2. Legality, Morality, and Ethics
The “Law”
Regulation: Essential to sustain any kind of experience involving two or more people
When ethics collapses, the law rushes in to fill the void
A “condensation of ethics into codification

3. Legality, Morality, and Ethics
Moral Temptations
Right and Wrong
When, in the face of a perceived injustice, do we speak up to correct obvious wrongs, and when do we remain silent to protect ourselves and others from abuse?

4. Legality, Morality, and Ethics
What is this thing called “Ethics?”
“Obedience to the unenforceable”
The greater our reliance on laws, the less ethical we are as people
We know it when we see it

5. Legality, Morality, and Ethics
How Good People Make Touch Choices
“The choice is not will society be regulated or unregulated, but the choice is between unenforceable self-regulation and enforceable legal regulation.”
“Law and Ethics are not the same”

6. Core Values The Ten Commandments
The United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights
The West Point Honor Code
The Boy/Girl Scout Laws
Corporate Codes of Ethics

7. Dilemma Paradigms
Facilitate “Tough” Choices BUYING TIME !
Helps cut through mystery, complexity, and confusion
Helps get to the heart of the matter
Helps separate right versus wrong from right versus right choices
Four Paradigms~ help to describe “the clashing of core values that makes it hard for good people to make tough choices”

8. Dilemma Paradigms Truth versus Loyalty What is truth?
Accurate, completed and relevant
“Truth crushed to earth will rise

9. EHICAL REFLECTION WATCH YOUR THOUGHTS FOR THEY BECOME YOUR WORDS
CHOOSE YOUR WORDS FOR THEY BECOME ACTIONS
UNDERSTAND YOUR ACTIONS FOR THEY BECOME YOUR HABITS
STUDY YOUR HABITS FOR THEY BECOME YOUR CHARACTER
DEVELOP YOUR CHARACTER FOR IT BECOMES WHAT YOU STAND FOR!