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Is There Hope for Leaders?

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August 15th, 2010 | Author: Mary Jo Asmus Yet another Fortune CEO has fallen due to ethics violations. Is there hope for ethical, moral power to prevail? Am I acting ethically in this situation?” Assuring that your leadership is moral and ethical can be easier when you have good relationships with those around you.

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Thought-full Thursday: The Inspiration of Questions

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What is the most ethical action we might take?” ~Albert Einstein; the question that led to the theory of relativity. What might DNA look like in a 3D form?” Watson and Crick; the question that led to the discovery of the double helix. Where can I get a good hamburger on the road?”

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Are We Responsible for Bad Leadership?

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Complacency has it’s price, up to and including some morally and ethically reprehensible leaders who have been elected to public office. Large corporations have HR departments that trained to help and also many have anonymous phone lines where you can report companies’ ethical violators, workplace abuse.

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Where Are the Rewards for Reflection?

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Then develop an understanding of whether or not a reaction or decision was appropriate, emotionally, professionally or ethically is the only way to recognize character flaws and improve them in the future. Recognizing how you behaved in a social situation with a peer, coworker or family member is important.

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How to Create Remarkable Teams PART 2 – Collaboration

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To get you started I will expand on the list that MIT research scientist Peter Gloor calls the “genetic code” of collaboration: learning networks, ethical principles, trust and self-organization, knowledge sharing, and transparency. It is essential to build in a framework of virtuous and ethical principles. Cambridge: MIT Press.

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Being Wrong is Good

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Yet it is always the moral and ethical thing to do. If you are in a work environment that simply doesn’t get it, get out asap! Mary Jo Asmus : December 16, 2010 at 12:40 pm Ellie, I agree that the context or environment makes it difficult to admit when one is wrong.