Stuart Rose-Ethical Leader

Sir Stuart Rose is a famous British businessman who was born in 17 March 1949. He was served as the executive chairman of the well-known London-based retailer, Marks & Spencer from June 2008 till 31 July 2010. In 2007, Sir Stuart Rose was awarded ‘2006 Business leader of the year’ as he has lead Marks & Spencer in restoring the fortune of the company. However, he was replaced by Robert Swannell and remained as the chairman of Marks & Spencer Group plc in the early of 2011 (Blackhurst, 2006). He was the one who initiated ‘Plan A’ and implemented it successfully in Marks & Spencer. The reason Sir Stuart Rose implemented the ‘Plan A’ policy because he has focused on what the customers want and created this commercial base for the ‘Plan A’. This plan has showed Sir Stuart Rose the ideal of mixing operations, awareness of commercial and moral. “You live and you learn” quoted by Sir Stuart Rose, shows that he learned from what he had experience, no matter the experiences is bad or good (Anderson, 2012a). He doesn’t look back to the past as he will give a better future to the world (Currie, 2012). He has stated that the mission of Marks & Spencer, they focus on three things; there are service delivery, shops and products (Blackhurst, 2006). His ethical values have formed the image of Marks & Spencer as an environmental friendly company.
The most significant and distinct ethical characteristic of Sir Stuart Rose is the value of having a great responsibility and belief in protecting and preventing the environment from further pollution. He has believed that a successful businessman should be committed to ethics and also sustainability (Anderson, 2012b). He has his way of doing his business, not like others, only thinking of the profit of the company and has neglected the importance of environment. Even though no one in business has followed Sir Stuart Rose’s ethical way of doing business at the very beginning, he still manages to run the company’s