EthicsBite™

This week has been filled with tragedy and bravery. Once again, as they do without hesitation, our first responders and ordinary fellow citizens led by example. The Boston bombs were unexpected and events moved quickly. With many people wounded and the shock of two explosions still ringing in their ears, first responders, marathoners and people in the crowd aided the victims. Who can forget the scenes of people being raced to ambulances on gurneys and in wheelchairs, some with bleeding arteries held tight by another spectator.

The explosion at a fertilizer plant in the small town of West, Texas looked like a miniature nuclear bomb in the film clips I saw. A fire at the facility had already been burning, the town’s small fire department, a volunteer fire department, had raced to the scene. The ensuing explosion that leveled five city blocks hit them without warning. The evacuation of a nearby senior living facility, damaged by the explosion, took place with every vehicle that could be found. First responders arrived from nearby towns and cities. The wounded were transported as far away as Temple and Fort Worth.

In every tragedy our nation faces it is our fellow citizens, ordinary men and women who work for a living to support their families, who show us what ethical leadership really is. They don’t need corporate placards or SEC regulations to tell them what to do.