Leading Blog

JANUARY 29, 2020

In a recent LeadershipNow blog, Mark Sanborn wrote about six warning signs of why leaders fail: a shift in focus; poor communication; risk aversion; ethics slip; poor self-management; and lost love. Empathy is considered foundational to workplace cooperation and productive collaboration.

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HR Digest

MAY 4, 2023

The fast-food giant has faced similar allegations in other states, indicating a systemic problem within the company. It is essential to ensure that companies like McDonald’s take responsibility for their actions and ensure that their supply chains are free from exploitation and abuse.

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Michael Lee Stallard

APRIL 10, 2016

Integrity can be defined as always interacting with others ethically and honorably. People with integrity aspire to the highest ethical standards and expect the same behavior of others. He ate in the company cafeteria with the rest of the employees and got rid of executive parking spaces. Be a model for ethical behavior.

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Lead from Within

APRIL 30, 2019

But most companies now have a zero tolerance policy for dishonest applications, and discovery of a false statement is enough to get you fired even if you’re doing a great job. No one wants a slacker on their team or in their company. To do most jobs effectively requires the cooperation, support and goodwill of those around you.

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The Idolbuster

OCTOBER 26, 2012

Today we’ll take a break from Busting Your Corporate Idol for this timely guest post from Omer Soker, Founder of The Ethics Of Success. . When values are compromised and when people are disrespected, both the health and the performance of companies suffer. They overlook the power of collaboration with their employees.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 1, 2013

presents Which of These is Ethical Leadership? The graphic in this post illustrates the point that leaders are interpreting “ethical leadership” at very different levels. Which one of the 3 represents ethical leadership”. Miki Saxon from MAPping Company Success presents You are NOT Your Company. “

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Skip Prichard

JANUARY 6, 2021

This new vista could look like more platform cooperatives, companies that grow better not bigger, a collective effort to promote positive mental health in the workplace, more quality work for more people, improving systemic inequality at work, acknowledging emotional labor that all too often goes unrecognized and unpaid, and more.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 28, 2012

Right” in this context implies operating with ethics, integrity, and a positive use of influence others can count on. To do that requires an understanding of healthy conflict and the power of stories, plus a consistent application of c’s: collaborate, cooperate, consider, and contribute. It means building lasting relationships.

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The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 11, 2022

Pay transparency has been a growing trend in recent years, with companies like Starbucks and Whole Foods both engaging in the practice. In our experiments, making wealth visible was a very corrosive force; doing so reduced cooperation and widened economic inequality. Pay transparency. Bosses pay.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 24, 2020

These views are based on over four decades of serving in the trenches advancing through 11 jobs to the position of CEO of a global company, and observing other leaders serving on numerous public, private, private equity and nonprofit boards. Always lead with the highest standards of ethics and integrity. I once worked for a tyrant.

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Michael Lee Stallard

MARCH 31, 2021

Do you take pride in having a “go-go-go” work ethic? According to statistics gathered by The Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the average American worker puts in more hours than the average worker in any peer country, including Japan and the U.K. How productive are you in your job?

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Chart Your Course

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

Often older employees view younger colleagues as being less committed and lacking a good work ethic. While some types of jobs do require a person to be in one place at a specific time, those companies that can find ways to provide whatever flexibility possible will stand to retain happier Millennial workers. Flexibility.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 9, 2017

Jesse Lyn Stoner of the Seapoint Center shared Do an Ethics Check to Navigate the Gray Zone. Jesse Lyn recaps, “It’s easy to know what’s ethical when your choices are clear-cut. Ethical decision-making can be challenging in our personal lives. Use these 3 questions to provide ethical leadership through the gray zone.”

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Google's Blogger was not being very cooperative. With examples from companies like Disney, Sony, and BMW, this post demonstrates the importance of and how to look at values in the context of purpose. Test your values against your mission or purpose to ensure your company's culture is prepared to support your strategic direction.

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Marshall Goldsmith

OCTOBER 27, 2014

Kill morale, careers, and even a company. Honest, ethical, and legal behavior is always appropriate—delegation isn’t. I saw an extreme example of the “empowerment is good” flaw in one of America’s largest companies. Delegation killed morale, careers, and the company. Inappropriate delegation can do more harm than good.

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Michael Lee Stallard

AUGUST 15, 2010

This applies to groups of all sizes including classrooms and schools, families, business and government organizations, hospitals, sports teams and the social sector. why is everyone smiling?

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Skip Prichard

AUGUST 31, 2020

My 10 years as an Air Force Officer and F-15 pilot put me on the front lines during the Cold War, and dealing with constant vigilance and preparation drove the work ethic I use today. I see too many companies try to be jacks of all trades and they become masters of none. Companies, products, and services come and go.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

You are the newly promoted vice president of business development at an oil company. The onus for ethical behavior falls first to the employee. So how do you know whether your company is positioned to help you­ — or hurt you — as you encounter gray-area decisions in your work? Picture this.

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Marshall Goldsmith

APRIL 28, 2014

” Honest, ethical and legal behavior is always appropriate – delegation isn’t. I saw an extreme example of the “empowerment is good” flaw in one of America’s largest companies. Decisions that involved cross-divisional cooperation were made effectively without involving him.

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Deming Institute

APRIL 4, 2017

When cooperation supplants competition, and people know what their jobs are and how they contribute to the system. In place of competition for high rating, high grades, to be Number One, there will be cooperation on problems of common interest between people, divisions, companies, competitors, governments, countries.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 4, 2019

By engaging with others in meaningful, cooperative activities away from the workplace and then leveraging insights gathered there into positive and productive work relationships.” Both are about solid ethics, dignity, and corporate citizenship.” ” Follow Chris on Twitter at @scedmonds.

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Michael Lee Stallard

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

How we feel about people has a impact on trust and cooperation. Frequently, mistakes are made when one individual presumes a meeting of the minds when in reality it doesn’t exist. An Emotional Connection is how you feel about an individual and how they feel about you. why is everyone smiling?

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 7, 2013

How to grow a company that remains healthy long into the future. 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.

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Michael Lee Stallard

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Ted (not his real name) has developed a small, pocket-sized, laminated card that describes his values and has given the card to all of the employees of his company. Each morning a one-page sheet entitled “Connect” is circulated throughout Ted’s company that includes a story about employees living out one of the values.

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Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 5, 2010

They reward members who cooperate and help their colleagues and the overall organization. They find ways to make members feel proud of the overall organization. They get out regularly to meet people and tell stories about members who sacrificed the me for the we. They confront members who behave in selfish ways. why is everyone smiling?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Companies usually manage bribery and corruption risk through a mix of internal processes, certification requirements, and basic good practices throughout their operations — including with suppliers and vendors. The company promptly disclosed this information to the U.S. In that case, the parent company paid $1.6

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

They want the companies they buy from to trade in an ethical and responsible way, and for the organizations they work for to not only make a positive difference to the world, but to offer them work that is fulfilling and enriching in equal measure. “The

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Mills Scofield

APRIL 20, 2013

Based on my experience as a bride, I''ve started a fair trade wedding dress company that cares about the workers, working conditions and the environment. It has been a year since that first trip and I am still learning just how challenging, complex and rewarding it is to develop an ethical supply chain Figure 2 (Figure 2).

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Michael Lee Stallard

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

When relationships fail among colleagues, communication breaks down and rivalries develop that reduce cooperation and team spirit. Heart and soul are important because developing relationship excellence is necessary to sustain task excellence. Many customers can sense this. why is everyone smiling?

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Building Personal Strength

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Video production companies treat only a few of the essential people skills, and their approach seems mostly to entertain and motivate, not to teach how. One key area of leadership skill involves coaching. But most books on this topic focus on mentoring and executive coaching, not skills for operational leaders.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Some of the worst corporate disasters of the past two decades were heralded by whistleblowers: Sherron Watkins raised the red flag internally at Enron, Cynthia Cooper let management know of major accounting problems at WorldCom, and Matthew Lee brought problems to his management team at Lehman Brothers. But that’s not the case.

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Building Personal Strength

AUGUST 17, 2011

I was impressed with his skill, creativity, work ethic and commitment to quality. So he left Texas Tech to join my company, Performance Support Systems. working for a company in Birmingham, Alabama. The process of design, specification, coding, testing and debugging went smoothly. And the rest is history. But we are.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 5, 2010

The character values, or blocks of the pyramid, were: industriousness, enthusiasm, friendship, loyalty, cooperation, self-control, alertness, initiative, intentness, condition, skill, and team spirit. .&# Integral to meeting his standards was achieving the character values reflected in what he called “the Pyramid of Success.”

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The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 6, 2019

As technologies such as robotics and artificial intelligence have progressed, there has been considerable time and effort given to the ethics of this development. For instance, many companies are following the lead of the likes of Amazon and Uber in implementing artificial intelligence in their management of employees.

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Miles Anthony Smith

AUGUST 7, 2018

Donald Cooper ( Business Management Consultant & Speaker ) There is no ‘#1 leadership competency’ that on it’s own will make a successful leader. And desperately needs to be the approach for leaders in every company worldwide. It will attract more A players willing to follow you and your influence will grow.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

Sara*, the CEO of a software company, had recently fired an employee. But the kind that poisons rapport, maligns reputations, and contaminates cooperation is what you need to take action against. Katrina, the COO of an international software company, made a decision to terminate her entire sales team over the course of a year.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 17, 2015

Every business, company or organization goes through cycles in its evolution. As companies operate, all make honest and predictable mistakes. It reviews the Addictive System, the company way and the organization as an addict. Companies are collections of individuals who possess fatal flaws of thinking.

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