It  is now, more than ever,
necessary that political leaders be outstanding
for  honesty, integrity and commitment
to the common good.

~ Pope Francis

Ethical Leadership

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• How Honesty Transforms Teams, 2 minutes

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One high school speech class lesson that stuck was The Big Lie, and its persuasive role in winning debates.

The ScientficMethod.com article “Suspect Debate Tactics,” lists quite a few, including,

·        Catastrophizing, “predict[ing] the future negatively without considering other, more likely outcomes.”

·        Insertionism, a “deceitful debate tactic … when there is an unwarranted and unsubstantiated insertion of words or new meanings into a statement or argument.”

·        Question Begging Epithets, “slanted language is used to reaffirm what we wish to prove but have not proven yet.”

·        Strawman Fallacy, which “purposely distorts an opponent’s argument (sets up the straw man), in order that he may attack it more easily,”

·        Recognize these? Read more with names like “Black Holing,” “Red Herring,” “Preponderance of Garbage Defense,” etc.

European Center for Populism Studies https://www.populismstudies.org/Vocabulary/big-lie/ reports , “The BIG LIE is the name of a propaganda technique, originally coined by Adolf Hitler in Mein Kampf, who says ‘The great masses of the people… will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one,’”

Big Lies work “by leveraging core psychological tendencies, exploiting social structures, and operating within a fragmented modern information landscape. It relies on a high-profile figure who, through constant repetition across a range of media, can establish a false narrative.”

The Psychological Factors that allow acceptance include,

·        Repeated exposure to a lie, especially an outrageous one because the human brain can confuse familiarity with factual accuracy

·        People tend to seek out and believe information that confirms their existing beliefs

·        Disinformation is often crafted to appeal to strong emotions like anger, fear, and disgust.

·        Read more, including about social and technological factors

In personal life and the workplace, trustworthy leadership matters. As Thomas Jefferson wrote. an “informed electorate” is vital, which becomes difficult when voters can’t tell what’s true.

Speaking of leaders, here are articles that may interest,

·        The Biggest Lies American Presidents Ever Told  

·        What President Has Told the Most Lies?

·        Who Truly Was the Most Dishonest President?

·        Who Lied the Most During Their First 100 Days: Biden, Trump or Obama? 

·        From Washington to Trump, all presidents have told lies [but only some have told them for the right reasons] 

Keep in mind,

… people who pay greater respect to a wealthy villain than to an honest, upright man in poverty, almost deserve to be enslaved; they plainly show that wealth, however it may be acquired, is, in their esteem, to be preferred to virtue.
~ John Hancock

Anyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
~ Albert Einstein

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.
~ William Shakespeare

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