A Girl Scout saw a contradiction between her pledge to make the world a better place and her task of selling cookies.
Girl Scout cookies contain palm oil, which has been linked to child labor and climate change. From her perspective, selling these cookies couldn’t possibly make the world a better place, so she decided to make and sell her own palm-oil-free cookies (and give the profits to her local troop).
If your organization asked you to engage in activities that contradicted its values, how would you respond?
The Ethical Leader 
In case of values contradiction, it’s common not to think of oneself rather, think about the common good. But, values are grounded, and it can be unpopular most of the time. If you are the leader then trainings come from unheared pledges, because it’s between you and yourself. Many times those pledges make the person’s brand and makes her influence to the people around her. But the cookies thing is not a big deal as that is very menial and non patronising by refusal or non adoption may not create a big impact to climate change and child labor, solitarily. She has to lobby that one with a collective voice so she can be heard among her troops. And maybe they can create a community where they check every ingredients of oil based products and promote only those that are for the good causes – health, environment. That’s integrity to the girl scout. Grand salute. She makes the world a better place, but maybe it’s just 0.05% change over the whole contributing factors to climate change and child labor.
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