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The January 2013 Leadership Development Carnival: Best of 2012 Edition

Great Leadership By Dan

This is my favorite because it addresses fear, a huge negative (and silent) driver that keeps leaders from speaking up against injustice, lack of ethics, morality issues and other things that damage individuals and people in our organizations. Randy Conley , Leading with Trust , picked Five Leadership Lessons From the Life of Neil Armstrong.

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The Big Picture of Business: The Colonel and Me

Strategy Driven

The first which I attended was at the Armstrong-Johnson Ford dealership. Rather than discussing the taste of the food, I asked about his desired legacy and the Big Picture goals of the organization. Ethics cannot be edicted from afar. The ethical conduct of business has a direct relationship on the ability to grow and prosper.).

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The November, 2012 Leadership Development Carnival

Great Leadership By Dan

Chris Edmonds , from Driving Results Through Culture , examines Lance Armstrong's fall from grace from the perspective of personal integrity: Personal Integrity is in Your Hands. Anna Farmery , from The Engaging Brand, submits 5 Truths about Profit as a Goal. "We Corporate culture guru S.

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How to Have a Year that Matters

Harvard Business Review

If you're going to live a life that matters, you need an ethical compass: a belief system with a true north that points toward values that are in some sense enduringly, meaningfully good. You don't get to a life well lived using the tired capabilities and skills built to Farmville the cubefarm. Where's your true north?

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