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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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How’s Your Integrity as a Leader? Ask a Watermelon

Lead Change Blog

It’s why Simon Sinek’s book, Start with Why , is foundational to leadership. Where insecurities run rampant, ethics almost always end up on the chopping block. Are you 100% confident in your core? You and whatever you lead will never succeed if you don’t get crystal clear about who you are. It’s not enough to know what you do.

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Blind Spots

Lead Change Blog

We often hear the term blind spot with respect to an obstruction in the field of vision, or an area in which one fails to exercise judgment in an ethical dilemma. But I could see neither an obstruction of the field or an ethical dilemma when I recently witnessed a colleague experiencing a “blind spot moment.”.

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LeadershipNow 140: December 2016 Compilation

Leading Blog

VIDEO: Simon Sinek on Millennials in the Workplace. Do an Ethics Check to Navigate the Gray Zone by @JesseLynStoner. Rereading Great Business Books from @wallybock. Here are a selection of tweets from December 2016 that you might have missed: Don’t you love the beginning of a new year? by @mark_sanborn. from @wallybock.

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Soul Hole: In Search of Purpose and Meaning

The Practical Leader

In Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action , Simon Sinek writes, “The drive to win is not, per se, a bad thing. In The Greatest Miracle in the World , Og Mandino spins a tale of his encounters with Simon Potter, a humble and learned wise man. It’s like an academic study of a deeply moving story or song.

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The Infinite Game

Leading Blog

Carse, wrote a book entitled Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility. Intrigued by this concept, Simon Sinek builds on Carse’s idea in The Infinite Game. Ethical fading, a condition that allows people to act in unethical ways to advance their own interests, is the result of a finite mindset.

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The Toxic Stress Caused By Low Self-Esteem Leaders

The Horizons Tracker

A stressful environment In De-Stress at Work , ESADE’s Simon Dolan explores the role leaders with low self-esteem play in passing on stress to their teams. As such, understanding the impact of toxic leadership on employee well-being is of paramount importance in addressing the mental health crisis in the workplace.

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