Should A Leader Swear?

August 1, 2010 by · 5 Comments
Filed under: Leadership, Personal Development 

Profanity 300x300 Should A Leader Swear?A pro­lific leader by the name of Spencer W. Kim­ball once noted: “Pro­fan­ity is the attempt of a fee­ble mind to express itself force­fully.” How many peo­ple would agree with that state­ment? It’s also been men­tioned that a per­son who uses pro­fan­ity to con­tin­u­ously express them­selves is only show­ing their lim­ited com­mand of basic lan­guage skills. Most, if not all lan­guages, have mul­ti­ple ways of express­ing them­selves strongly for just about any type of sit­u­a­tion with­out the use of swear­ing or the use of pro­fane lan­guage. Some­times though peo­ple find the need to cuss in order to get the point across to others.

When given the choice of using pro­fane lan­guage, some freely choose to ver­bally let loose like the most tal­ented sailor as the say­ing goes. But what good is it to cuss? Read more

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