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The Seven C’s of Trust: Mastering Team Confidence and Cooperation

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It could be a shared goal, similar work ethics, or even a mutual hobby. Finding and emphasizing these commonalities can strengthen team bonds. Character involves honesty, ethical behavior, and making decisions that are not only good for the individual but for the team and organization as a whole.

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Leading for Others

Great Leadership By Dan

It’s natural to gravitate toward, and develop bonds with, people who look like, talk like, and think like we do. History suggests that women will not be able to fully dismantle the ceiling by sheer force of will and talent without the active contribution and cooperation of male leaders. Most are decent and ethical people.

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New Perspectives Required To Create AI Fit For Humanity

The Horizons Tracker

As technologies such as robotics and artificial intelligence have progressed, there has been considerable time and effort given to the ethics of this development. Forming a bond. These efforts have been driven by a strong desire to ensure that the technologies function in a way that benefits society rather than harms it.

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The Elements of Transformational Leadership

Skip Prichard

This extract from Wellbeing at Work by Cary Cooper and Ian Hesketh is ©2019 and reproduced with permission from Kogan Page Ltd. Looking at our first point, leaders do not necessarily have to be charismatic to inspire others, they can have deep values, be highly ethical, champion a cause and such-like descriptions.

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The Case for Trash-Talking at Work, According to Research

Harvard Business Review

We contrasted the effects of trash-talking in competitive interactions with the effects of incivility in cooperative interactions. Targets can retaliate in competition by performing better, whereas targets retaliate in cooperation by sabotaging performance. No, don’t do it. And what about trash-talking a competitor?

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People Skills Are Hard Skills - More Than You Know

Building Personal Strength

That's a lot of people skills - way more than managers or experts acknowledge.

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Our Moral Guidance System

Coaching Tip

In our blood and in the brain, oxytocin appears to be the chemical elixir that creates bonds of trust not just in our intimate relationships but also in our business dealings, in politics and in society at large. Practicing The Law of Reciprocity.

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