Moral leadership

In my previous column, I shared my learnings from Dr. Albert Pierce, the founding director of the Center for the Study of Professional Military Ethics at US Naval Academy, when I spoke with him at the National Defense University in Washington, DC in 2006.

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During my discussions with Dr. Pierce, he shared that his Moral Leadership Theory is anchored on four main qualities that individuals must develop to become capable leaders: moral awareness, moral reasoning, moral courage and moral effectiveness.

Based on these key principles, I also learned that leaders must undergo a transformative process that must occur within the four key domains they operate in: the personal domain, interpersonal domain, organizational domain, and societal and global domain.

According to Dr. Pierce, it is in the personal domain where we gain self-mastery and development. The second is the inter-personal domain where we develop social awareness and social capital.