Leadership, Success, and Morality: How to Make the Right Decision in Ethical Dilemmas

Abstract

In Chap. 9 we discussed power and asked how power can be dealt with in an ethically or morally acceptable manner. This is a highly relevant and ever topical question and we will examine it in greater detail in this chapter. That’s what makes this chapter stand out from the others to a certain extent. In each chapter we have endeavored to describe and discuss the psychological phenomena connected to the different aspects of human leadership. This chapter focuses less on psychological processes and instead discusses the concept of leadership from a philosophical perspective. The psychological perspective describes what is or how something can be. The philosophical perspective describes how something should be.