It’s election year and the campaigns are running fast and furious this season. The message of a campaign encompasses the concepts the candidate wants to share with the voters. The candidate is attempting to get those who agree with their ideas to support them. In many elections, the party opposing the candidate will bring up policies or personal attacks that are not related to the overall contest. Regardless of political affiliation, most people would agree this pettiness is unethical and detracts from the meaningful issues that truly matter.
The fierce competition got me thinking about how leaders in business behave in their own leadership campaigns. How people act as they ascend the corporate ladder and how they act once they are firmly seated in a leadership position both play into this concept of running a leadership campaign. There are those people who promote their skills, standards, and morals to make it to the top and there are those who step on others to get to where they want to be. Which candidate for leadership would you support?