5 Summary of Week 8

Leading with purpose is about injecting practice with ethical purpose, practice that makes judgments about right and wrong. To improve your ethically purposeful leadership, it is important that you develop negative capability, the capacity to be still and to reflect on the world around you. From this basis, you will be well positioned to cultivate moral perception and imagination. Perception involves noticing the ethical dimensions of practice. Imagination equates to empathy, which means feeling the ethical aspects of a particular situation. Ethical practice can be envisaged as practice that brings more love into the world, helping other people grow spiritually. It can also be a matter of acting in ways that demonstrate ethical moderation.

You should now be able to:

• understand a variety of approaches for identifying, interpreting and acting in ethically purposeful ways
• evaluate the ethicality of situations you are involved with in terms of leadership
• critically reflect on and apply models of purposeful leadership to improve your practice and the ethical practice of your own organisations.