ANCIENT GREEK WISDOM FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE

ANCIENT GREEK WISDOM FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE

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Sofia Ellin Hilentzaris has over 25 years of leadership and management experience in education and healthcare. She has taught courses in management, leadership, human resources, business ethics, and organizational development and change in various colleges and universities in the USA and Greece for over 20 years. She served at La Rabida Children’s Hospital for 14 years. She taught at Keller Graduate School of Business, Moraine Valley College, and The American College of Greece among others.

The proposal in this book is that leaders must build their leadership on the 3π Competence Model. The bedrock of this approach is avoiding the dangers of being swayed by harmful emotions or pathoi (from Greek πάθος= uncontrollable impulses) or ephemeral pressures such as greed, personal gain, or fear. Robust, sustainable, successful leadership has a strong foundation on the three pillars of the 3π Competence Model. These three competencies are a must for leaders. The pillars are:

  • Management Competence (MC)

  • Leadership Competence (LC)

  • Ethical Competence (EC)

The 3π Competence Model Pillars

“In the Chariot Allegory, Plato describes the soul as a composite "power (energy)" of two horses, the chariot, and the Charioteer. The Charioteer represents intellect, reason, or the part of the soul that must guide the soul to truth, the Nous. One of the horses represents the good Nature of the human being, prowess. This horse loves knowledge and good deeds and is both proud and humble. The other horse represents the soul's irrational passions, appetites, or capricious nature overtaken by hubris.” - excerpt from the book- Leaders Know when to say Yes and when to say NO.

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Lena Trianti

The book posits and supports that,

We need to keep in mind the fact that while laws differ, ethics do not. John Steinbeck’s quote “And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good” can entice us to think further on the issue of ethics. Perfect and good are not identical in meaning.   Good (right) decision-making is a one-time event, while perfection is a continuous quest for something better. A decision that is not wise cannot be good, and, of course, something that is not good cannot be ethical.