Chapter 13 - Leadership and Ethics

Through out this chapter the big discussion is based on the difference between a good leader and an evil leader and how their ethical decisions are different. When discussing the topic of ethics and leadership, the studies done tend to be focused on bigger leaders like for example Hitler or President Lincoln and how their leadership styles were affected by ethics. They use extreme examples in the studies on ethics to suggest how leaders make their decisions based on their characteristics like these famous leader's. It seems to me that the studies almost suggest leaders are either "Saint" style, or "evil style when it comes to making ethical decisions.
The book had kind of mentioned this but I would suggest that people start doing more studies and research on the everyday leaders in business, government, schools and communities. The should look more into how these everyday leaders have to make ethical decisions and how they can use their leader roles to make better moral decisions. These smaller role leaders tend to have to make more frequent decisions and so they need to know how to make the right decisions and it's hard to base their decision making process with that of a large leaders process.
Another interesting topic in this chapter is that some people suggest that it is a lot harder to be a good leader and a good follower than it is to be a bad leader. The question to ask then is if you think that people in leadership roles are inherently bad or in other words are they really in it for themselves and so that they can control what happens or are most leader's good in that they are in their leadership roles because they want to make a difference and they want to help their followers and team be successful? I would like to think that most people in leadership roles are their because they want to help the team and make a positive change for everyone but in today's society people are very individualistic and tend to be looking out only for themselves. I think that we need to look into how to better teach people in leadership roles to make better moral decision that will benefit everyone the leader and the follower.
Ethics has been and always will be a touchy subject when in comes to leadership. I am asking what you think we can do to help everyday leader's have a better understanding on how to make more frequent positive moral decisions?