The ArXon Project: Business Ethics & Leadership

Pronounced “ar-cone,” it’s the Greek word for leadership. The ancient Greek philosopher, Plato, taught that integrity and virtue must drive leadership (Leges X, 903b). He called values-driven leaders, arXontes. The arXon Project is a scientific exploration of ethical leadership and its impact on business.

Leadership is not an exact science. No single leadership paradigm will always and entirely satisfy the demands of every situation. The only objective way to define, describe, and evaluate leadership is to examine its impact on “follower-ship.” The best leaders are those who are able to adapt their approach to meet the needs of individual team members within an ever-changing environment.

However, as Plato observed, absent integrity and commitment to core values, this adaptability may easily degenerate into amoral manipulation and political accommodation.

Choose one or all of the following modules (each module is 3 hours)

Module 1: Team Building and the Five Basic Elements of Leadership
(Review Leadership Performance Profile results)

Module 2: Team Dynamics
(How to Motivate Performance)

Module 3: Two Critical Leadership Skills
(Delegation & Listening)

Module 4: Change Management (Analyzing and leveraging change, aligning the organization to change)

Module 5: Developing the Power of Vision
(Ethics, values clarification, paradigm analysis and mission)

Module 6: Stretching Personal Creativity
(Learning “out-of-the-box” thinking skills)

The arXon Project addresses the challenge of training business leaders to be behaviorally balanced without becoming ethically equivocating; sensitive in service to others without becoming subservient to group-think; relational in style without becoming morally relativistic; always searching for common ground without sacrificing the on-going quest for the greater common good.