Friday 16 January 2015

Higher Leadership - To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less - Andre Malraux

Ian Lewis FRSA FInstLM Ian Lewis FRSA FInstLM Coordinator, Campaign for Adventure

I agree that at a simplistic level, Malraux is right - one represents in a leadership role those whom one leads.

However, the rules of ethics kick-in for the higher leader, expanding service to both humanity and sustaining our planet over all time. This then becomes the higher level of leadership, arguably the highest. For whom would willingly call themselves a lower-level leader?

Some writings on this are under 'glipworld' - an attempt to collect the higher values of leadership under a single term, allowing leaders to evaluate their moral capacity/values levels.