Leadership by example critical for building culture of ethics: Murthy

Leading by example and creating “messengers” at lower levels who can share good values and ethics are critical instruments for building a “culture of ethics” in an organisation, Infosys co-founder N R Narayana Murthy said on Friday.

Addressing young innovators from Atal Innovation Mission’s ATL Tinkerpreneur programme, Murthy said there is nothing as powerful as leadership by example.

“If you want to communicate good or bad values, your followers will pick up those habits with a lot of enthusiasm, because they are watching the leader all the time and they want to imitate the leader,” he said.

Murthy added that in large organisations, it may not be possible for the head of the organisation to interact with everyone and therefore,