self-reflections and morality

Greetings to you all and hope you’ve already started a very nice Monday morning na ka.

These days, I’ve been skimming through a few articles and would like to share about several things that have been on my own agenda whenever I give talks ka.

1. Self-reflection: My 11 years at Fulbright has made me become an advocate of it. I also thought back to the school days when nuns always told us to review daily how our day went to see what we had done well or what we had to improve. It may have shaped my thinking to be part of me today too ka. I now feel even more thankful of all the teachers, especially all the มาแมร์ !

I’ve found one, saying that self-reflection is the one key trait that all great leaders share.

Gianpiero Petriglieri, at INSEAD, stresses the importance of “active self-reflection as a component to becoming a better leader”. It should start from recognizing that we all tend to make an assumption and must be aware that our view of the world and our own behavior “may not be entirely accurate”. We need to “actively look for facts that run counter to the assumption--practise our self-awareness”.

Daniel Dobrygowski points out that “self-reflection requires that you question your assumptions and your habits and ask whether they are useful in dealing with the world around you.”

Check this website out ka-- https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/03/key-trait-all-great-leaders-share

2. Top 5 leadership competencies: when 195 global leaders were asked to rate 74 qualities, the top ones show clearly focus on morality, still stress communication and flexibility ka.

• Has high ethical and moral standards
• Provides goals and objectives with loose guidelines/directions
• Can clearly communicate expectations
• Has the flexibility to change opinions
• Is committed to ongoing training
   
  Check this website out ka-- https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/03/how-many-of-these-leadership-traits-have-you-mastered

With more population amid fierce competitions and materialistic minds, the first on the list doesn’t surprise me. I only wonder how our informal, non-formal, and formal education can nurture morality. While our assessment craze seems to focus on easier-to-measure indicators, have we unfortunately distanced our people from ethical and moral dimensions? We discuss a whole lot about leaders as role models but when we look around our communities and country, how many can be our true role models?

Perhaps more time to reflect our leadership needs to include this very aspect of ethics and morality as the most important one to determine how individual leaders have behaved and how to further make improvements to be seen as a role model ka.