Below are seven key insights from the Character-in-Action story, “Owning the Outcome: A Case Study in Ethical Leadership.” To read the full story, please use the link below.
- Moral responsibility begins when leaders stop looking for the easiest escape route.
- Moral responsibility in action is a deliberate adjustment of competing interests in favour of what is right.
- Moral responsibility includes truthfulness paired with the protection of those who are vulnerable.
- Moral responsibility entails balancing competing obligations rather than choosing simplistic extremes.
- Moral responsibility is revealed when personal values remain stable despite competing pressures.
- Moral responsibility requires confronting the human consequences of decisions, especially when systems fail.
- Moral responsibility requires owning the consequences, not outsourcing them.
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