Should you’ve been following leisure information, you’ll know that it has been 20 years since Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan, performed a mom and daughter at odds, who magically swapped our bodies in Disney’s 2003 remake of Freaky Friday. Disney has confirmed a sequel, and Curtis and Lohan are open to a return.
“Make good selections,” says the mom, Tess (Curtis), to her daughter, Anna (Lohan) in a Freaky Friday scene the place we see Tess drop off Anna in school and provide sagacious recommendation simply earlier than she drives away.
Since Curtis uttered that epic line (which has turn into a meme and copypasta), all of us have been hoping that organizations and governments will appoint or elect leaders who will make unimpeachable selections. I say “hope” as a result of we will’t all the time depend upon each chief to steadfastly make accountable selections–ones that may undoubtedly, whether or not instantly or down the road, have an effect on people, society, enterprise, and authorities.
Should you’ve watched season 4, episode 8, “America Decides,” of Succession (spoiler alert), you’ve got seen a (fictitious) tv information community election night time broadcast manipulated by its co-CEOs, two of the Roy brothers, who make what many would contemplate a heinous selection that adversely impacts the whole thing of the US. Popular culture apart, as Noel Murray writes for the New York Instances, “Though this episode is extremely entertaining, it does lower uncomfortably nearer to real-world politics than is typical for ‘Succession.’”
Decisions and Choices
Right here’s the rub. In some unspecified time in the future, somebody (or maybe a board or group) would possibly ask a pacesetter to decide primarily based on two express choices. In different phrases, they may ask somebody to do the fallacious factor.
I doubt anybody would argue that integrity is on the core of honorable management. Moral leaders behave in line with rules and values that serve the frequent good, and don’t deviate from their code of conduct. Together with integrity, many individuals cite honesty, duty, justice, and transparency as crucial. Although moral management is multidimensional and multifactorial, holding individuals accountable for making accountable selections appears requisite. To make a sensible choice, you could contemplate how your determination won’t solely positively influence your personal group, workers, stakeholders, and prospects however whether or not it should profit or hurt individuals exterior to your group or the planet. Merely, what are the higher ramifications?
As a college professor and nonfiction ebook creator, I’m obliged to find out studying outcomes. What’s going to my college students or readers be taught on account of taking my course or studying my ebook? Again within the day, instructors framed programs primarily based on objectives. Framing programs or books primarily based on studying outcomes works much better as a result of it locations the emphasis not on the trainer or creator however on the individuals they serve. A lot can trip on outcomes.
Honorable Management = Making Courageous Decisions
In an interview with Rolling Stone, Curtis mentioned that she improvised that line. “For some cause that popped out of my mouth. What it actually stands for is, make courageous selections,” she mentioned. At instances, making good selections means we have to be courageous. Sustaining integrity underneath duress, uncertainty or difficult circumstances is feasible. At any time when I take into consideration decision-making, I consider French thinker Jean Paul Sartre who believed that we’ve got to make selections. He additionally believed that as a result of “existence precedes essence,” each selection reveals our essence.
Please forgive the inclusion of Sarte’s existentialist philosophy alongside popular culture references. However there’s no denying Curtis’ knowledge.
This visitor submit was authored by Robin Landa
Known as “one of many nice academics of our time” by the Carnegie Basis, Robin holds the title of Distinguished Professor within the Michael Graves School at Kean College. She has taught college college students, in addition to educated trade professionals, to generate a number of worthwhile concepts. It’s no shock individuals contemplate her a creativity skilled. However Robin Landa is greater than that—she makes use of her artistic powers for good.
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