They encourage independent, challenging thinking, and they invest in technologies that facilitate the efforts of their people. A leader must stand for something. As a public citizen and a private person, she knows what is important in life and acts by deep-seated principles. Every wise leader has a moral compass, a sense of right and wrong. Good leaders understand that good ethics is good business.
Community is mutual commitment, and it inspires the highest per-formance.
It's human nature to go the extra mile for one's neighbors and fellow citizens, and a mature leader stresses the organization's responsibility to the surrounding society. A leader also acts as a steward of the natural environment. He is a psychologist and consults widely to dozens of Fortune 500 companies, governments, and entrepreneurial-growth businesses. Rosen is also the founder and president of Healthy Companies Institute, a nonprofit organization that studies high-performance business. He is Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the George Washington University School of Medicine.