LEADERSHIP: How Do You Show Your Heart Is Right?

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Each person in a leadership role, especially Top/ Executive Leaders: Unless your heart is right, how are you capable of consistently doing what is right, fair, and just for each person you are responsible for leading, representing or protecting?

In order for your actions to be right, your mind has to right. For your mind and actions to be right, your heart has to be right.

Webster Dictionary defines right as “being in accordance with what is just, good, or proper.”

People with a moral compass consciously ensure that their actions are a direct reflection of their good heart. Thus, their good intentions align with their words and actions.

A good heart is right.

And how do we know our heart is wrong? If it’s not right, then it’s wrong. Either a person’s intentions are good, or their intentions are bad. You either strive to do what is right or you don’t.

We know our heart is wrong or bad when more focus is on not getting caught or covering up malicious behavior rather than trying making necessary adjustments to get ourselves right to do the right thing.

People in leadership roles and positions of authority & power have the duty to constantly self-examine how they demonstrate their good heart.

Reflection points to check yourself on having a good heart:

• How is a heart filled with hate, malice, anger, jealousy and racism right, especially the heart of any leader or person in a position of authority & power?
• How is it right for people in leadership roles or positions of authority & power to believe that they are more important or their lives are more valuable than any other person?
• As a person in a leadership role, how can favoring and only wanting the best for certain people be right? [ Certain people meaning only people who look like you, or only people you can relate to, or only the people whom you like. ]
• What’s right about people in leadership roles being unreasonable?
• How is retaliation for any reason — such as against whistle-blowers, advocates, or people who stand up for themselves and to vile leaders and people in positions of authority & power — ever rightly justified?
• As a leader or a person in a position of authority, what’s right about not respecting other people, whether you are able to relate to them or not?
• If your heart is right as a leader or a person in a position of authority & power, what are you doing to ensure that each person you are responsible for leading, representing or protecting is treated respectfully, fairly, and justly?
• As a leader, what are you doing to ensure that each and every single person you are responsible for leading or representing is in no way hindered from being able to live a decent life, thus is truly given fair opportunities to set themselves up for success?
• As a leader or a person in a position of authority, what’s right about having the power to make positive differences and change or correcting mistakes for the better, but you choose not to?
• As a leader or a person in a position of authority & power, what’s right about allowing costs and retail prices of essential products to increase in time of crisis and uncertainty? (eg. housing prices continue to unjustifiably rise, during the pandemic essential cleaning & safety products cost too much, healthcare is not affordable for all )
• As a Top/ Executive Leader, what are you doing to ensure that you and other leaders do the right thing for each and every single person you all are responsible for leading, representing or protecting?
• When requested as a leader, what is right about not trying to empathize or understand the needs of each you are responsible for leading or representing?
• As a leader, how is avoiding or dismissing uncomfortable issues and topics right?
• As a Top/ Executive Leader, when is not holding yourself and other people in positions of authority and power accountable for misconduct ever right? Misconduct is anything that causes harm to someone or negatively impacts the lives of other people, up to and including their careers, way of living, or life.
• As a Top/ Executive leader with a good heart, what are you doing to cure the misuse and abuse of authority so that each person is treated right, fairly and justly, regardless of their gender, race, ethnicity, age, socioeconomic status, educational level, sexual preference, or their past?
• If your heart is right as a leader, what are you doing to eradicate anything wrong (from price gouging and greed to workplace bullying and creating a hostile working environments to racism and discrimination to blackballing and police brutality to social and systemic injustice to corruption to the misuse & abuse of authority and power)?
• If your heart is right as a leader, how do you demonstrate that you truly understand or care about what other people are dealing with or have experienced?
• If your heart is right as a Top/ Executive leader, what are you doing to consistently prevent misconduct and unethical behavior of yourself and other leaders and people in positions of authority & power?

The good book says: Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.

Each of us chooses. In our personal tug-of-war between genuinely displaying a good heart or submitting to our demons and mistreating other people, it’s a choice.

Top/ Executives, leaders and people in position of authority & power who are inherently wired with a good heart, they strive to consistently show it. Thank you.

How is it right for you to remain in your top/ executive role, leadership role, or position of authority knowing that your heart is not right?

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