Virtue-based Leadership, Part 4: Virtue, Morality, and Ethics
Abstract: While there are similarities and crossovers between morality, ethics, and virtue, they are not the same. For me, at least, morality is essentially based on operant conditioning—reward and punishment. Ethics are based on rules and systems. Both are…
Virtue-Based Leadership: Part 2, Discernment
Abstract: Discernment is perhaps one of the most important, but least studied and written about leadership skills. It is especially important for virtue-based leadership, which requires leaders to consider moral aspects of decisions. Discernment goes beyond the judgment discussed in…
Virtue-Based Leadership, Part 1
Abstract: During my doctorate in Leadership and Learning in Organizations at Vanderbilt, there were a few readings and discussions over whether there is even such a thing as a “leader” or “leadership”. This is related to the discussion over whether…
The Warrior Ethos: Part 1 Introduction
When a friend asked me to write a series on restoring the Warrior Ethos to the military, I started pondering a series of questions: What is a “warrior ethos”? How do we know it is missing and needs to…
Faustian Bargain, Part 1
This is a three-part series on developing the concept of compassionate conservativism to develop effective policies and solutions that address the problems of poverty and its threat to sustainable liberty and prosperity. Both the left and the right entered Faustian…
