Dr. Mahin Gosine
SOC 101
Virtue is a moral excellence. The person who is virtuous has very high standards that are admired. Virtues are very important these day. In order to have more productivity and be better than competitors leaders started to debunk rules and play fair in marketplace. Virtues are becoming things of past and because of that American people have to deal with leaders who are cheaters and liars. Virtues saves us living the life that is socially unaccepted. They also make us better person and those people who are around us. Virtues are better for society. Society without good morals fails. Owners and executives of large business corporation have been in trouble because of the lack of moral excellence. Many owners practice illegal and unethical business. They didn’t exercise good judgment and that led to their downfall in business. To some people leadership is all about power and whoever comes in their way they crush them. They don’t care about law and break rules thinking that they would not be caught. They forget that leadership is also about the human side of life and organization is a part of society and society cannot function without principles. Good leaders do the things that are better for society and not just better for them. Effective leaders choose the right people to be part of their team. It makes their organization better and honest and reduces the possibility of corruption. In the past, People pay attention to knowledge, skills, and information the leader possessed rather than paying attention to how leader learns the culture of a society. What happened to American global economy was result of arrogant leaders and leaders who were hungry for power and money and did not have any moral excellence. And that put them in lot of trouble in the end. Virtue comes from Greek word arete and is translated into Latin as virtus. Virtue is a quality of good in human. Wisdom is the core of virtue. In religions virtue is a very thing.