Recall the day…Tuesday Sep 11, 2001. Approximately 3,000 people dead, more than 6,000 injured. What type of person could instruct such an unethical act and have followers execute the task? Osama Bin Laden could. He was a visionary leader. He was an unethical leader. I am going to explain to you why Osama Bin Laden was a visionary leader due to his team role of being a creator and his use of contingency reward in his transactional leadership style. I will then explain how he was an unethical leader due to his use of ethical relativism and pragmatic fallacy. Finally, I will explain how my own personal experiences are reflected through his leadership styles. I will now move on to explain Osama Bin Laden as a visionary leader.
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He based his decisions off his own values. Osama bin Laden believed in the law set out in the Koran directing Muslims how to live their lives (Kershaw, 2012, para. 3). Kershaw went on to say that, this can range from what a Muslim can and cannot eat to the stoning of homosexuals and unfaithful wives. He decided that if Sharia was to prevail among the World’s legal ideologies it they must kill the unbelievers (Kershaw, 2012, para. 3). He then decided that the United States was his greatest threat to his ideas. He recruited a team of Muslim Fundamentalist that would follow these values. This is where he made the decision to attack to America, innocent civilians, based on his values. He was clearly an unethical leader. In Ethical Leadership, this is an Ethical Trap of Ethical Relativism. Osama bin Laden based his decision his own values for mission accomplishment rather than society’s values and established military rules (BCEE, 2016b). This leads me to explain how he got his followers to perform this unethical act and failing at his main …show more content…
His unethical leadership traits caused him to fail at his overall mission. As a visionary leader, I do not want to be a Creator in the same way that Osama Bin Laden was, but I do want to emulate his ability as a Creator. I had the opportunity as a recruiter to be a creator. I could create the business to my liking as long as it worked. I could have been as creative as I wanted to be but I followed the norms of basic recruiting skills like making phone calls, conducting school visits and visiting establishments in my area. I executed what was already in place. A creator has the ability to come up with fresh ideas that are innovative and unique (BCEE, 2016d). This is good for your organization if you can express the idea, follow through and prove a better process. If I would have created new ideas outside of the norm, the impact could have generated even more business and helped the Air Force further by increasing our
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He based his decisions off his own values. Osama bin Laden believed in the law set out in the Koran directing Muslims how to live their lives (Kershaw, 2012, para. 3). Kershaw went on to say that, this can range from what a Muslim can and cannot eat to the stoning of homosexuals and unfaithful wives. He decided that if Sharia was to prevail among the World’s legal ideologies it they must kill the unbelievers (Kershaw, 2012, para. 3). He then decided that the United States was his greatest threat to his ideas. He recruited a team of Muslim Fundamentalist that would follow these values. This is where he made the decision to attack to America, innocent civilians, based on his values. He was clearly an unethical leader. In Ethical Leadership, this is an Ethical Trap of Ethical Relativism. Osama bin Laden based his decision his own values for mission accomplishment rather than society’s values and established military rules (BCEE, 2016b). This leads me to explain how he got his followers to perform this unethical act and failing at his main …show more content…
His unethical leadership traits caused him to fail at his overall mission. As a visionary leader, I do not want to be a Creator in the same way that Osama Bin Laden was, but I do want to emulate his ability as a Creator. I had the opportunity as a recruiter to be a creator. I could create the business to my liking as long as it worked. I could have been as creative as I wanted to be but I followed the norms of basic recruiting skills like making phone calls, conducting school visits and visiting establishments in my area. I executed what was already in place. A creator has the ability to come up with fresh ideas that are innovative and unique (BCEE, 2016d). This is good for your organization if you can express the idea, follow through and prove a better process. If I would have created new ideas outside of the norm, the impact could have generated even more business and helped the Air Force further by increasing our