The Three Pillar Model for Business Decisions: Strategy, Law and Ethics

Your friend decides to order a pizza. President Obama decides to authorize the mission that leads to the death of Osama bin Laden. You decide that your business should launch a new product. What do these decisions have in common? They all require using the Three Pillar model of decision making. Our personal, leadership, and business decisions are based on a Law Pillar, a Strategy Pillar, and an Ethics Pillar.

The Three Pillar model originated in a leadership course that every Harvard MBA stu...