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- Leadership for the common good calls on leaders to help their communities imagine how paradoxical tensions can be understood and managed. In complex, pluralistic societies, there are reasonable differences of opinion about what is the right, just, or fair thing to do.
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Aug 1, 2012 · Many people refer to the “greater good” as an important part of leading ethically, and use different words to describe it. The descriptions they use collectively paint a picture of a responsibility to think beyond ourselves and to work for a better, inclusive society.
The present paper traces the historical evolution of the main leadership theories and reviews the progress that has been made over the years. It explores four main eras in leadership theory: trait, behavioural, situational and new leadership.
- Sihame Benmira, Moyosolu Agboola
- 2021
- An Idea with A Long Pedigree
- An Evolving Concept
- A Once and Future Idea
The idea of the greater good has a long yet punctuated history, replete with diverging meanings. To illustrate, Plato imagined an ideal state in which private goods and nuclear families would be relinquished for the sake of the greater good of a harmonious society. Aristotle defined it in terms of a communally shared happiness, whose key constituen...
The most serious limitation of most historical ideas about the greater good is that they are silent on the greater good as it relates to non-humansand other natural systems. At minimum, construing the natural systems in which we are nested as the ultimate meansupon which all else depends admits the current and future state of the environmental “com...
Australians are endowed with quantities of superb collective goods. By and large, we enjoy equitable access to these goods. However, with the possible exception of those who witnessed their introduction in the post-war years, most of us accept their existence and provision as an unanalysed fact of life. Too few of us are alive to the meaning of the...
Jan 22, 2024 · We asked 14,303 people who participated in a larger study for the Australian Leadership Index to provide a definition of the common good, also sometimes called the greater good or the public good.
To justify rule-breaking behavior by an appeal to the greater good, a cosmopolitan leader must show that her ends really are higher than ordinary organizational goals.
Jan 26, 2024 · The common good refers to achieving the best possible outcome for the largest number of people, which is underpinned by decision-making that is ethically and morally sound and varies by the context in which the decisions are made.
