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Building Trust Through Behavioral Integrity

Great Leadership By Dan

Chris Edmonds : Cornell University professor Dr. Tony Simons’ powerful article, “ The High Cost of Lost Trust ,” appeared in the Harvard Business Review in 2002. Simons’ team defines behavioral integrity as “managers keeping their promises and demonstrating espoused values.” Guest post from S. Significantly higher profits!

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Infinite Leadership: Lessons From Nature

Lead Change Blog

Many of you might have recently read or seen extracts from Simon Sinek’s new book on the Infinite Game. Public companies are measured by their 90 day success on the stock market. This is something I wholeheartedly agree with—but it’s nothing new as a concept. If the CEO fails to make the numbers, the stock price plummets.

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Women Account for Under 1 in 10 Top Paid Execs and 1 in 5 Board Members in S&P 100

Women on Business

The report examined differences related to diversity practices since the last time the study was conducted in 2010. Key findings from the study include: 56% of S&P 100 companies have no women or minorities in their highest-paid senior executive positions. 30 companies have added at least one woman to their boards since 2010.

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People Do Business With You…But Why?

Women on Business

According to author and thought leader Simon Sinek, people buy the “why.” While most companies explain that they make great products, Apple is unique in that they begin by telling the consumer “ why ” they make their products. By Maribeth Kuzmeski Why do people do business with you? Many times it doesn’t seem clearly defined.

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Just Realize Your Job Sucks? Here’s Why It Took So Long To Notice

The Idolbuster

I would like to stress again, that being excited about your work and engaged with your company are good things. Company engagement turns into Corporate Idolatry when work becomes the most important thing in your life at the expense of everything else. 2010) Crown p55-57. It turns out that we notice far less than we think we do.

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Know Your History, Purpose and Direction

CoachStation

If you have not had the opportunity to view or read any of Simon Sinek’s material regarding marketing and to ‘ Start with Why ‘, I highly recommend you spend a few minutes doing so. What – This is what the company does to fulfill that core belief. Sounds simple, but what Sinek found is that most companies do their marketing backwards.

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THE GAUNTLET HAS BEEN THROWN DOWN

Women in the LEAD

  As recent studies have shown, diversity at the board level of companies and women holding decision making positions improves both the quality and soundness of decision making and quality of performance.    We must educate ourselves and our young girls to this fact. 

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