Our startup team adopted Confucian leadership principles about servant leadership and collective harmony, but now we're scaling fast and everyone wants to implement AI tools and automation that might eliminate jobs, and we can't figure out how to stay true to our values about human dignity while staying competitive. The engineering team thinks I'm being naive and the business team thinks we're falling behind because we're overthinking ethics.
More people experience this than they realize.
A team committed to virtue-based leadership is facing the tension between moral principles and technological pragmatism in a competitive environment.
“Where Are You with Confucian virtue ethics and technology?”
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