What comes to mind when you think of leadership skills? High IQ and great people skills? Ability to manage and motivate people? And how about being a “good person”? Since leaders determine culture, being a person of high moral virtuousness becomes a key prerequisite for combating the spread of toxic corporate cultures.
Our recommended reading list for someone aspiring to become a better person and a more Ethical Leader:
Book: Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, by Immanuel Kant, 1785
Book: The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress, by Peter Singer, 1981