Ethics and leadership in business development

Over the past 25 years and work with some of the best business development in the power generation industry, and we found some unique characteristics that separate them from the rest. Not seem to matter what the organization in which they work, or services the customer base, or the economic climate. We find that these people are in fact the top 3% of workers in this field. In addition to learning to think like CEOs, presidents and business leaders from business development units, we discovered that they got on the behavioral characteristics of a leader. They learned how to set strategic objectives and operational plans, how to be visions and see opportunities for their organizations that others may be missing, and the role of business development, and mastered their core competencies 12, the standard for measuring leaders.
One of the most pressing definitions of the leader is the person who inspires just a desire to follow. Asked whether leaders are born or bred, and general consensus is that leadership can be learned. Very few of us have had the opportunity to formally trained or mentored in leadership, and we are all invited to be a leader in different times and circumstances of our lives. Driving for the first time about who you are as a person, not what you do, and the best description of the fundamental character and attribute of a leader. This is the part of the person who inspires others to follow, so we see a character as a sum of the principles of the individual and the core values ​​and beliefs that one can anchors and measure their behavior in all roles of life. Principles and values ​​the positive leader include loyalty, respect and integrity, courage, justice, honesty, duty, honor and commitment.

If the character is the sum of our principles and values, then morality is to apply them. For a better understanding of the evolution of the character, we can go to almost 2500 years to the writings of Aristotle in Nicomachean Ethics. Aristotle said that those acquired through practice moral virtue. Ethics, according to Aristotle, is the moral virtue that comes as a result of this habit. Of ethics to root ethike that formed a slight difference from the spirit of the word (usually). He pointed out that Aristotle's moral virtues do not arise in our nature, we must accept and embrace and perfect by habit. Leadership training emphasizes that understanding the values ​​and attributes leader is not only the first step in the development process. It must also include the leader of the values ​​and attributes of practice, to live up to become a habit.

The role of business development, and success requires a combination of us as individuals, with our principles, ethics and values ​​and their application. It is a unique combination of what we know, and how can we apply what we are doing.