Human Capital MBA
Ethical Leadership, Managerial Judgment and Executive Effectiveness: What Separates a Good Executive from a Merely Confident One
Why an executive can score well on an ethics survey, sound decisive in every meeting and still make an avoidable, expensive misjudgment. This lesson closes Module 06 by treating ethical leadership, sound judgment under pressure and executive effectiveness as three distinct, separately measured things, and by asking what Drucker's classic prescriptions actually have in common with the evidence on escalation of commitment, overconfidence and leadership effectiveness, and what they do not.
2 Nov 2026 · 25 min read