Leadership & Ethics

Leadership & EthicsLeadership Interview AnalysisGroup 1Yuka KimuraChibumi TanakaMoi Kok WahCho HyoJoonTerence Wong

Agenda

•Demographics•Definition of Leadership•Toxic Leadership•Personal Experience•Comparison of Leadership•Ethics and Leadership•Summary

N = 54

Age: Mean 39Median 38Mode 30Std Dev 8Normal distribution

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5

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15

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Country of Respondents

Demographics

How we Organize the Questions

Questions 6,15

Questions 6,15

Questions 7,8

Questions 7,8

Questions 4,5,14

Questions 4,5,14

Questions 9,10,11,12(ii)

Questions 9,10,11,12(ii)

Questions 1,2,3,12(i),

13

Questions 1,2,3,12(i),

13

Definition of Leadership

•What is your definition of leadership?•Do you think leaders are born or made?

Why? •How do you measure a leader’s success?•What do you consider to be the three

most important characteristics or attributes of effective leaders? (Part 1)

•Who are the three leaders (living or dead) you respect the most?

What is your definition of leadership?(1)

Possessing Strong Vision and Ideals

Influence

IntegrityStrong

Morals/High Ethical Values

People Oriented

Caring

Responsible

Civic MindedPhilanthropic

Ability to lead/execute

Strong Communicator People Developer

Talent Attractor

Accountability

Tough Decision Maker

Ability to celebrate others

Ability to Motivate

Bring out the best in PeopleAbility to dominate

Ability to Inspire

Ability to bring people together

Commands respectCapacity to listen

and observe

Encourage Dialogue

Initiating and Managing Change

Effective Problem SolvingGood Role

Model

Take on the Most Daunting Assignments

Strategic Thinker

Ability to prioritize

To be at the Cutting Edge

Ability to make people

happy

Intuitive

Charisma

Ability to guide

WisdomImagination

Energize others

Tenacity & Perseverance

Humility

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3

4

5

5

6

6

1

48%

2

31%

30%

3 4

17%

5

15%

6

11%


“Leadership is a personal natural/nurtured capability to influence, inspire and band together a group of followers to achieve a personal/group objective.” “Leadership, in my own view, is a

combination of spoken and unspoken influence on a group of people. Elements that embody leadership include direction, mission or purpose, values, as well as an aspiration of some kind. The quality of leadership evolves from the sub conscious (the inner voice), and the sum of values, training & knowledge that the leader is developed from.”

The Short Answer

The Short Answer

The Longer AnswerThe Longer Answer

The Shortest Answer

The Shortest Answer

“Decision”


The Longest Answer

The Longest Answer

“A Leader is someone who would have a vision of where he what he would like to achieve/goal and able to lead a team to achieve this goal. What would come with that would be that he/she would have the capability in communicating his/her vision to the people effectively, influence and get their buy-in and support. He would also be able to ensure that his people have the right skills by coaching and developing them so that they could sustain themselves through a period of growth that is scalable and ensure continuity. He would also be able identify the Talent in his team and to nurture him/her and at the same time he must also be a Talent attractor. He must be able to hold people accountable for the task that is given to them and at times have to make tough decisions. He is also someone who would be able to make decision under ambiguity as sometime the may not be able to get all the information he wanted. He must also be able to reward or punish objectively.”


Processes that have to do with taking charge of situations / stages / journeys through a course / chain of events wherein transformation must occur for the situations / stages / journeys to be successfully managed or undertaken. This transformation is manifested in people changing positively as a result in being taken through the situations / stages / journeys by the “leader”. The good leader helps create the desire within the members of the team to want to change in order to help achieve the common objectives of the situations / stages / journeys.

“Leaders are those who have followers eating out of their palm. Leaders stay the course and make things happen. Leaders exhibit vision, will/passion, decisiveness, ability to build a team and character especially humility.”

The Controversial AnswerThe Controversial Answer

The Abstract Answer

The Abstract Answer

Do you think leaders are born or made? Why? (1)

• The majority of respondents think that leaders are both born and made

• Of those who responded “Born” or “Both”▫ 35 respondents deem that

natural talent was a key factor in leadership

• Of those who responded “Made” or “Both”▫ 31 respondents indicated

that training/nurturing was of great importance

• Of those who responded “Both”▫ 23 respondents think that

both natural talent and training/nurturing are important factors

Natural TalentNatural Talent

Training/Training/NurturingNurturing

ExperiencesExperiences


• Out of 5 respondents who said leaders were born▫ 4 said you had to born

with natural talent for leadership

▫ 2 said you had to have the correct temperament and character

• Out of 15 respondents who said leaders were made▫ 8 said that leaders could

be trained and nurtured▫ 8 said that leaders were

the sum of their experiences





• Out of 34 respondents who said that leaders are both born and make▫ An overwhelming 30 said

you had to born with natural talent for leadership

▫ 23 said that leaders could be trained and nurtured

▫ 5 said that leaders are created out of tough circumstances and crisis

▫ 5 said that leaders were the sum of their experiences




How do you measure a leader’s success?

Result oriented measurement : 50% - Results speak for itself - Achievement of KPI - Good strategy and decision Relationship oriented measurement : 50%

- Level of respect shown by followers - Successfully nurturing next leader - Effectively motivate

What do you consider to be the three most important characteristics or attributes of effective leaders?(Part 1)

Who are the three leaders (living or dead) you respect the most?

• More than 60 leaders nominated

• The Top 10 are dominated by style 3 and style 6

• Many mentioned their acquaintances

Moi got 2 and beat Bill Gates !

Toxic Leadership

•Can you name three toxic leaders, living or dead?

•Is it possible for any person to become a toxic leader?

•Can you give an example of a ‘good’ leader performing a toxic action?

•What do you consider to be the three most important characteristics or attributes of toxic leaders? (Part 2)

Toxic Leadership 1

•Can you name three toxic leaders, living or dead?

Toxic Leadership 2

•Is it possible for any person to become a toxic leader?

Toxic Leadership 3

•Can you give an example of a ‘good’ leader performing a toxic action?

P: politicians, war, corruption, racialism

C: Fiorina, Satyam, staff exploitation

P: Misleading, insincerity, backstabbing

R: Biblical stories, Shoko Asahara 12

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5

8

27

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Unanswered

Religion

Personal

Corporate

Political

Category of Example

Toxic Leadership 4

•What do you consider to be the three most important characteristics or attributes of toxic leaders? (Part 2)

•1st: Dishonest•2nd: Unethical•3rd: Power Crazy

Personal Experience

•When did you discover you are a leader? •What difficulties have you encountered as

a leader?•What two questions would you ask a

leader you admire if you had 15 minutes of their time and wanted to learn as much as you could about their success?

0 2 4 6 8 10 12

No, I don't think so.

Results / outputs

Subordinate asks

My actions

Move to a company

In the progress

Become a leader/manager

In School

When did you discover you are a leader?

0 5 10 15 20

Situation

Decision making

Personal

Relationship

Business & Management

Integration of team members

Analysis: People from Korea seem to be correlated with “decision making” for this Question.

What difficulties have you encountered as a leader?

What 2 questions would you ask a leader you admire if you had 15 minutes of their time?

Comparison of Leadership

•Do you believe women lead differently than men? Examples?

•Do you believe business ethics are the same in the East (Asia) and in the West? (Europe and North America)? If different, can you give an example of a difference?

•Do you believe women lead differently than men? Examples? [Q6]

Comparison of Leadership

•Same▫ Gender is not relevant, but personality▫“Female & Male is different” is just a stereotype

e.g. Thatcher, Jeanne D’Arc and Hillary Clinton

•Different 　　　　　　　　　　　　

♀EmotionalIntuitive

SoftDetail

CautiousRelationship-

oriented

♂Rational

Evidence basedHard

Big pictureRisk taking

Result-oriented

•Do you believe business ethics are the same in the East (Asia) and in the West? (Europe and North America)? If different, can you give an example of a difference? [Q15]

•Same▫The gap gets smaller due to globalization.▫Good ethics are the same in all cultures

delivered with integrity & love.

•Different

EastProcess-oriented

Relationship, Group Cunning & kick back

Live to workSocial interest

HierarchyConservative

Quality

WestResult-oriented

IndividualClean & politically correct

Work to liveIndividual interest

IndependentInnovativeQuantity

Ethics and Leadership

•How do you define ‘ethics’?•Does being a good/effective leader mean

being a good (moral) person as well? (Another way of asking this is “Is being a good person a prerequisite for being an effective leader?”)

Ethics and Leadership

•How do you define ‘ethics’? [Q7]

•Does being a good/effective leader mean being a good (moral) person as well? (Another way of asking this is “Is being a good person a prerequisite for being an effective leader?”) [Q8]

•Good leader = good person▫Followers’ respect come from faith in their

leaders.▫ABSOLUTELY, it’s hard to follow a bad person.▫I think a good person will finally be a winner.

•Good leader ≠ good person▫Because a leader sometimes need control and

may have to compel others. ▫A leader needs to be cunning in some ways to

be on top of others. You cannot please everyone equally when you make decisions. He must be able to select and discard options to achieve an outcome.

Conclusion (1)Definition of Leadership• Leadership is defined by most as the ability to lead/execute, being highly

influential and having strong vision and ideals• In the view of many, leaders are both born and made• Leaders are considered successful if they can deliver results and harness

people and relationships effectively• Most respondents want leaders who are ethical, can rally the troops and are

visionary• The top 3 most respect leaders are Gandhi, a person’s direct superior or

teacher and Steve Jobs

Toxic Leaders• The top 3 leaders most regarded as toxic are Hitler, George W. Bush and Kim

Jong-il• A large majority of respondents think that anyone can become toxic• Most respondents gave examples of good leaders performing a toxic action

from the politic, commercial, personal or religious realm largely depending on the country of the respondent

• Most respondents think that toxic leaders are largely dishonest, unethical and power crazy

Conclusion (2)Personal Experience• Most respondents discover that they are leaders when they were in school,

through the actions they took or when their sub-ordinates deem them to be• The top 3 difficulties encountered by leader are how to make a team cohesive,

dealing with business and management and handling relationships• Most respondents would ask the leaders they admire questions about their

experiences and learning and about what motivates them

Comparison of Leadership• Most respondents believe women lead differently from men; women are seen

as more emotional and intuitive whereas men are seen as rational and evidence-based

• Most respondents believe that business ethics are different between the East and the West; People in the east are viewed as process-oriented, collectivist and cunning whereas people in the west are viewed as result-oriented, individualistic and clean/politically correct

Ethics• Most respondents define ethics as conscience, morality or code of conduct• More than half of the respondents think that a good leader is not necessarily a

good person

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