In this post, I’m using the article “How to Link Personal Values with Team Values” by Dennis Jaffe and Cynthia Scott. While reading this article, it reminded me how in our group assignment we had to choose a CEO based on what our values are as a company and what we want in that CEO. When giving our core values in our company and what characteristics we want in our future CEO, it’s important that we understood that our CEO is a reflection of our company’s values. In the article it says, “Personal values provide an important bridge to team values that everyone can commit to. Personal values are real in that they help guide people’s behavior.” Not everyone in this world have the same values and beliefs and that’s what makes teams unique because being able to understand other people’s values that are different than mine, we can able to work through different ideas and have a common goal or agreement. For example, I’m one of the leader’s on the women’s basketball team here at NC State, everybody has different values and beliefs, but we all have a common goal which is to win and get to the National Championship so being able to recognize these different core values can help us in the long run. I think that it’s better to have a diverse team because they bring different values and characteristics to help the team get to our common goal, as it said in the article that having the same values as a team can be easy, but having different values can make the team better in so many ways.

The other article I chose is “Why Unethical People Make Unethical Choices” and I chose this because I just think it would hopefully make me understand. A couple things I found interesting was that Carucci points out that it’s psychologically unsafe to speak up. To me, most CEOs or bosses says you can stop by if you need anything or if you have any ideas my door is open when it’s really not in most cases. In this article, Morrison states that people are just afraid of the consequences if they do say something or they think their boss won’t listen to them.

Another big thing as to why unethical people make unethical choices is because positive example aren’t being set. Carruci says, “Leaders must accept they are held to higher standards than others. They must be extra vigilant about not just their intentions, but how it is others might interpret their behavior. While they can’t control every possible misinterpretation, leaders who know their people well make careful choices in how they react to stressful situations, confront poor performance, how politic they are in the face of controversy, and how receptive they are to bad news.” According to this, this is why you have to get to know your employees and be able to approach them the right way. Also, hypocrisy is mentioned which I think is huge when you’re in a leadership role. For example, you can’t tell me to do something or whatever the case may be and you aren’t doing that as well.

The article I will be using is “Top 10 qualities that make a good leader”, and I found it interesting to read because being grad senior and a veteran on my basketball team here at State, it’s very important to be a leader on and off the floor. The 10 qualities that Forbes talks about is honesty, delegate, communication, confidence, commitment, positive attitude, creativity, intuition, inspire and approach. I think that all of these qualities are significant to being a good maybe even a great leader in the future, but I’ll talk about the two qualities that really stick with me which is delegate and approach.

Forbes says you have to be able to trust your team and be able to delegate ideas. He also says,” The key to delegation is identifying the strengths of your team, and capitalizing on them. Find out what each team member enjoys doing most. Chances are if they find that task more enjoyable, they will likely put more thought and effort behind it.” Which in this quote, I can connect it to basketball by saying if a person knows the plays and wants to be the floor general then the’ll be the point guard, if they love to shoot then they’ll be the shooting guard and so on and so forth.

Being able to approach someone that is obviously not the same as you is fairly a good thing. In a business you have to be able to approach them the right way. You might have cultural differences, speak different languages, different beliefs, etc. but that shouldn’t stop you on how to approach someone the right way and to be able to know how to do that, you have to get to know them. Like I can respond to tough love and criticism very well and some might not be able to do that. Your approach will be different for every person.

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