Virtues in Leadership

Virtues in Leadership

Introduction

When we admire leaders of the stature of Martin Luther King, John Lennon, Abraham Lincoln, Chico Mendes; we inspired by the virtues present in their hearts, for its grand vision of a better world for his brave actions to express its mission. They all dreamed of something bigger than themselves. The dreams of the great leaders, who end up becoming your life purpose, always involve the creation of a more virtuous.

Courage and personal growth work has been the mission for which I have dedicated my actions, my feelings and my dreams. I truly believe that when we become better human beings, more knowledgeable of our mysterious nature of thoughts, feelings and unconscious drives, we gradually become the protagonists of our own lives; able to choose our responses, our attitudes, our thoughts and our feelings (Dent, 1981). Better yet, we can express what we hold most sacred repressed.

The methodology of personal self that I have taught within and outside companies in leadership development, guides us among other things, on the nine passions and the nine virtues that make us leaders noblest.

A passion called fear reflects a leader who does not believe anything that has not seen or has not been proven. Who doubts himself and needs guarantees to follow their plans. The noble virtue called courage, on the other hand, moves the leader who acts by heart, without the slightest hesitation, do what your soul cries without knowing the path (Snyder, 2010).

Description of Virtue

Aristotle (384-322 BC), who wrote many precious thoughts about the virtue of Courage. But what is the result? For him virtue is in the middle ground, i.e., virtue is in the balance between the lack of excess something and something. Let's use the example of the virtue of courage.

The virtue of courage is the balance between excess (foolhardiness) and lack (cowardice). Neither cowardly nor rash possess the virtue of courage, because the coward is constantly haunted by a fear that paralyzes you, which prevents you from acting and exposing himself in situations where he should do it (this is the lack of virtue) (Rabieh, 2006).

On the other hand, the rash is that person who shows bold, but uses the criteria courage without prudence and without (it is the excess of virtue). That is why Aristotle meant that virtue is in the middle ground, the balance between lack and excess.

Let's imagine a young man who wants to show their friends who are brave and decides to make a "crack" or with another, then drive 160 km per hour and think you're being brave. This is not being brave, it is to be foolhardy (Rabieh, 2006). Many people are losing their lives in accidents where one of the main causes is the lack of prudence, responsibility and common sense.

Some are courageous from ignorance or from experience, as soldiers, and that courage is rather the result of the exercise of an art than a moral virtue. Others are brave by passion (fear of threats, of ...