{"id":33338,"date":"2015-08-20T00:15:36","date_gmt":"2015-08-20T03:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/?p=33338"},"modified":"2016-11-24T22:49:01","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T01:49:01","slug":"gen-dempsey-moral-courage-important-to-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/20\/gen-dempsey-moral-courage-important-to-leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"Gen Dempsey: Moral Courage Important to Leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A senior military leader has again listed &#8220;moral courage&#8221; as an attribute of a good leader. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen Marty Dempsey <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defense.gov\/News-Article-View\/Article\/613712\/dempsey-basketball-luminaries-give-nellis-airmen-master-class-in-leadership\">said<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>While physical courage is important, just as important is moral courage, he said. \u201cDo the right thing when nobody\u2019s looking,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In some cases, that could be written &#8220;Do the right thing when people <strong>are<\/strong> looking.&#8221; Taking the harder right over the easier wrong <!--more-->can be difficult for leaders under pressure about appearances.<\/p>\n<p>Isn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-share=\"true\" data-show-faces=\"true\" data-size=\"small\" data-action=\"like\" data-layout=\"standard\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><strong>ADVERTISEMENT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><!-- blogpost --><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-ad-slot=\"2728423835\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6450825356098669\"><\/ins><script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A senior military leader has again listed &#8220;moral courage&#8221; as an attribute of a good leader. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen Marty Dempsey said While physical courage is important, just as important is moral courage, he said. \u201cDo the right thing when nobody\u2019s looking,\u201d he said. In some cases, that could be written &#8220;Do the right thing [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[1958,2,624],"class_list":["post-33338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-marty-dempsey","tag-military","tag-moral-courage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}