From the course: Values and Ethics: Case Studies in Action
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Leadership vs. discipline
From the course: Values and Ethics: Case Studies in Action
Leadership vs. discipline
- Part of being a good leader is taking initiative and not waiting for instructions, but part of being a good employee is obviously doing what your boss tells you to do and it's hard to be both at the same time, as you'll see in this scenario. So imagine a computer programmer named Jim who worked in the shipping department at his company. Well, Jim was working on a new program that would allow his company to track the exact location of all their delivery trucks anywhere in the world and predict when they would arrive at their destination, and his boss Sarah had assigned him to work on that project last year, right after the CEO had made GPS enabled technology a top company priority. Well, at this year's annual meeting, the CEO announced to the entire company a new set of strategies, and GPS wasn't even on the list. So, Sarah met with each person on her team one at a time, and told them which projects to stop working on…
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