moral leadership in law firms
I’ve previously written about moral intelligence and the emergent Conceptual Age that places a premium on empathy, meaning and human-to-human connection. I’ve also discussed how the incoming generation of lawyers highly values meaningful work.
Echoing these markers of a warming social-cultural-business climate, the Christian Science Monitor has a great piece on college efforts to “prepare students to be moral exemplars and socially responsible leaders.” The key components of this campus-based moral leadership campaign are:
- Striving for excellence
- Personal and academic integrity
- Contributing to a larger community
- Taking seriously the perspective of others
- Ethical and moral reasoning
As these kinds of programs take root in colleges and universities across the country, they’ll likely spread to graduate schools, including law schools. Transitioning from this academic milieu to the law firm environment, newly-minted lawyers will have little tolerance for anything less than positive law firm leadership.
I think that's great news Arnie. I was just talking about how critical it is to drive the ethics / morals / values milieu into the law school classroom to make sure practitioners are aware of the domains and not seeing reductionest legal work in the context of a larger social system.