CEO Pay and Ugly Leadership

“Beautiful Leadership is a choice, so is Ugly Leadership”

I wrote these words recently in: “Be careful of toxic language”

Two days in “Our Clarion Call to Beautiful Leaders and Makers”, I shared Alan Moore’s thoughts on Beauty in Leadership and Business, including:

“Beautiful Businesses Leaders respond to a higher order calling of service to a greater good. Their leadership is framed by values and informed by purpose.”

Yesterday someone asked me if Alan and I were reaching too high to frame up our focus as high as Beautiful Leadership. My answer was simple. “No, we can all be aspiring to be more. Lead more beautifully, build businesses that are more beautiful”.

We know beauty when we see it. We know Beautiful Leadership when we experience it.

Today an example, CEO pay levels, where current models (and they are a choice) are ugly rather than beautiful. For CEOs and other leaders reading this, I ask you to consider your choices and whether you could choose to lead more beautifully.

“A society that values its teachers, care workers and nurses at less than 1% of a FTSE CEO is beyond broken. Countries with high levels of inequality, such as the UK, have higher levels of mental and physical ill health, obesity, drug and alcohol addiction and lower…