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APRIL 22, 2015

By Linda Fisher Thornton I have spent the last six years answering the big leadership question "What does it mean to do the right thing?" I wrote the book 7 Lenses because I believed that we needed a clear answer to what it meant in a global society. We could make a powerful positive difference through our leadership.

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OCTOBER 17, 2018

We had a lively conversation about ethical leadership and the concepts from my book 7 Lenses: Learning the Principles and Practices of Ethical Leadership. By Linda Fisher Thornton I recently did an interview with Rachel Salaman for the MindTools Expert Interview Podcast.

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MARCH 5, 2014

Complexity Ethical Leader Ethical Organization Ethical Thinking 7 lenses book ethical leadership ethical leadership development ethical performance system leading with values' Instead of being competing perspectives, each one is an important element of the full picture of what it means to lead ethically in a global society.

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MARCH 27, 2019

By Linda Fisher ThorntonSince I started researching ethical leadership, I have begun to notice just how many different people are trying to steer us in the right direction. They are trying to tell us something important.The messages are packaged in a multitude of different ways including books, music, quotes and stories.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2013

She invited me to talk with her about my new book 7 Lenses: Learning the Principles and Practices of Ethical Leadership. In the interview she asked questions that some of you may have about ethical leadership, and I walked listeners through the book''s framework for leading ethically in a complex world (click below to listen).

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OCTOBER 28, 2015

By Linda Fisher Thornton A new ethical decision-making tool is available for readers of 7 Lenses!

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MARCH 29, 2017

This week, I'm in the process of reading Tom Friedman's book Thank You for Being Late and in it Friedman refers to and builds on Sandel's observations. I started thinking about some of the qualities that are highly valuable and make leaders great that money can't buy - some of the priceless qualities that define great leadership.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

By Linda Fisher Thornton Recently, a 7 Lenses reader told me she loved the leadership book but she had one question - "Why did I include Profit in the 7 Lenses?" This is a question that has come up before, so I will address it in today's post.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2019

By Linda Fisher Thornton With leadership responsibility comes a certain amount of influence. Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. We can impact how people think. We can advise them on the choices they make and invite them to follow our lead. It is about one life influencing another.” […].

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MARCH 30, 2016

Linda Fisher Thornton If you are in the Richmond, Virginia area, please join me for a Book Talk on April 7th at the Tuckahoe Library.

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OCTOBER 19, 2016

By Linda Fisher Thornton Senior leadership teams and boards have a choice. In their ethics strategy, they can focus on prevention or cure. The cure approach is reactive and messy. It involves waiting for something bad to happen, then scrambling to do damage control.

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JUNE 3, 2015

By Linda Fisher Thornton On the journey to ethical leadership, we all struggle. We struggle to make ethical choices when there are multiple stakeholders to consider. We struggle to balance competing interests, high expectations, information overload and overbooked schedules. We struggle to be at our best in difficult circumstances.

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OCTOBER 16, 2019

By Linda Fisher Thornton Christa Motley, host of Inspire Indeed at WRIR radio, invited me to the station to talk about the journey to writing my book 7 Lenses and how it is helping people who want to understand ethical issues. In the interview I give an overview of the 7 Lenses framework and how […].

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MAY 30, 2018

By Linda Fisher Thornton The question for today is "Can we control ethics?" Leaders have tried to control ethics with compliance-based systems (based on rules and penalties) but that does not tend to inspire people to ethical action.

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JANUARY 27, 2016

By Linda Fisher Thornton In January of each year, Trust Across America-Trust Around the World announces its annual list of trust thought leaders. I recently received the news that I am in the 2016 Top Thought Leaders in Trust! To celebrate the news, I am sharing a collection of some of my favorite blog posts about trust building.

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