N2Growth Blog

MAY 22, 2014

I’m constantly amazed when working inside organizations that the names and examples of such people come up constantly in the conversation. Yet rather than being weeded out, they seem to survive and thrive in an institutional ethic that values by choosing short term greed over longer-term value and culture. LET ME ASK YOU A QUESTION.

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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. Examples of Integrity in Action. It is critical for you to be consistent and clear about your ethical standards. Definition.

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The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

” The researchers cite Enron as a prime example of a culture where ethics was forgone by management in pursuit of profit-related goals, with disastrous consequences. Such employees would be less likely to cooperate with their peers, and indeed would probably deviate from various organizational rules, norms and practices.

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 13, 2020

Effective cooperation. Participants were asked to complete a cooperation game that was based upon the Prisoner’s Dilemma, in which their partner was either a human or a bot. The players had to decide whether to act selfishly or cooperate with their colleague. Is it ethical to develop such a system?

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HR Digest

MAY 4, 2023

The Need for Global Action Eradicating child labor requires global action and cooperation, including measures to address poverty and improve access to education. Despite the company’s claims of strict adherence to labor laws and ethical standards, the evidence suggests a pattern of violations and lax enforcement.

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Lead from Within

APRIL 30, 2019

And if there are inconsistencies between what you’ve said you can do and your performance on the job—for example, if you’re struggling with a piece of software or equipment you’ve said you know how to use—your entire application may get a second, closer look. Disrespecting leadership. No one wants a slacker on their team or in their company.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 28, 2012

Bandwagon “solutions” for the ills troubling organizations or employees are often gobbled up by leaders and reinforced by trade and business publications featuring successful examples of the “new” thinking or approach. Right” in this context implies operating with ethics, integrity, and a positive use of influence others can count on.

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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. . One example is Tony Hsieh who founded Zappos.com and sold it to Amazon for over US$1 billion. He is a corporate speaker, workshop facilitator and business consultant.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 8, 2013

Consider, for example, that 89% of the American public say that they are comfortable with women in senior leadership roles. 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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Marshall Goldsmith

OCTOBER 27, 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. In one example, a CEO was frequently traveling. Decisions that involved cross-divisional cooperation were made effectively without involving him.

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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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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. In one example, a CEO was frequently traveling. Inappropriate delegation can do more harm than good.

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

MARCH 9, 2021

And yet, because they put in the time “working,” they think they have a strong work ethic. 13 Key Ingredients of a Strong Work Ethic. A work ethic is a set of essential values that strengthens your character, boosts your career, and leads to a more fulfilling life. A strong work ethic involves being: Conscientious.

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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.” Michael shares what leaders need to know about loneliness in the workplace as well as examples of how organizations are engaging their employees.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 11, 2018

As the leader, you’ll find that your own habits ripple out to your team–so show up as a leader and lead by example. Mutual respect is critical to any team, so set an example by treating everyone you encounter with respect. It’s amazing what you can accomplish when you work together toward a shared compelling vision.

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Skip Prichard

DECEMBER 19, 2019

This extract from Wellbeing at Work by Cary Cooper and Ian Hesketh is ©2019 and reproduced with permission from Kogan Page Ltd. We share the view that this may largely be down to the notion that it moves followers beyond self-interest, to see work as a greater good rather than simply a transaction for money, for example.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2017

This is just one example of pressures that unfortunately are all too common in business. The onus for ethical behavior falls first to the employee. Most companies talk a good ethics game and even make their goals public. For example, compensation tied solely to landing a contract invites abuse of the system.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 7, 2013

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. This post shares some examples of how leaders do that every day.".

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Michael Lee Stallard

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

I’d like to share three critical actions that I believe are necessary to impart your values and I think you will be inspired by and learn from his example. Recently I had the opportunity to watch a leader who does this well. Communicate Your Values, Upfront and Often Leaders need to lead courageously by telling people what they believe.

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Mills Scofield

APRIL 20, 2013

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). I am incredibly fortunate to work with an amazing women’s sewing cooperative in Cambodia where several dozen women work in safe and fair working conditions.

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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. Another fine example of heart and soul. Heart and soul are important because developing relationship excellence is necessary to sustain task excellence. Many customers can sense this. How great is that!

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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. An outstanding example of an intentional connector I presented earlier was John Wooden. What legacy will we leave?

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Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

David included a clip from one of my favorite shows, Utopia (called Dreamland in USA) with a vivid example of a performance appraisal experience. David Langford’s presentation at our 2015 annual conference was titled: Education – Implementation Intentions and Automatization.

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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. Be mindful about the example you set as your actions will always speak louder than your words. They can be learned, absorbed, honed. Ask questions over providing advice.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

After all, those that find themselves embroiled in bribery scandals, for example, face a host of consequences, including business disruption, steep financial and legal costs, and harm to their brand and reputation. This fine was relatively light due to Ralph Lauren Corporation’s self-disclosure, cooperation, and remediation.

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Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

To get you started I will expand on the list that MIT research scientist Peter Gloor calls the “genetic code” of collaboration: learning networks, ethical principles, trust and self-organization, knowledge sharing, and transparency. These are just a few examples. Cooperation – willingness to collaborate.

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Deming Institute

APRIL 7, 2016

The best policy may be to avoid incentives altogether and focus instead on creating systems in which intrinsic motivation, cooperation, ethical behavior, trust, creativity, and joy in work can flourish. Some of these fall into just a silly example of you used a slogan and had success and think there is causation.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

But the kind that poisons rapport, maligns reputations, and contaminates cooperation is what you need to take action against. For example, before seeking to acquire another firm, Joe, the CEO of a midsize consumer packaged goods company, gathered his team and revealed the company’s financials in great detail. Always Wear White.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2017

For example, when Dan Akerson, former CEO of General Motors, announced that his company would be launching a new car that would compete against Mercedes-Benz’s C-Class line, he said “They call it C class because it’s very average.” No, don’t do it. And what about trash-talking a competitor?

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 9, 2017

In this post, Chris shares a real-world example of a client that did some “culture refinement” to improve employee engagement and customer service. 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.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2018

My colleagues and I did an experiment in which I gave participants difficult ethical challenges where there seemed to be no good choice. Consider an extreme example: Captain Chesley B. When we experience conflict, research finds , we generate more original solutions than when we are in a more cooperative mood.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 21, 2016

In a tragic example, at a Dutch energy supplier that used rigorous, transparent safety standards to deal with toxic waste, employees came to work one day to find the company’s safety officer dead of a workplace accident. Consider, for example, research I and several collaborators published in Leadership Quarterly.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2018

But as behavioral scientist Cass Sunstein has cautioned , there are sound uses for personal data on social media if handled ethically. Personality insights and other aspects of behavioral science offer opportunities to better connect with individuals, and if done ethically it can be beneficial for consumers and businesses alike.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2016

New research , published in Basic and Applied Social Psychology, has uncovered an alarming wrinkle that complicates incentives even more: they may make powerful people less ethical. One way to counteract how incentives can corrupt may be to incentivize cooperative behaviors, such as employee satisfaction or retention.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2011

It happens to results-producing CEOs pushed out of companies; for example, Mark Hurd of H-P, who fudged expense reports but whose real sin perhaps was making enemies within the company by ruthless cost-cutting rather than investment. The emperor, dictator, or CEO finds himself increasingly isolated and abandoned to the wolves.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2017

For example, look at Sherron Watkins, formerly of Enron, and Cynthia Cooper, formerly of WorldCom. Whistleblowers can play in a big role in uncovering financial misconduct. Both women helped uncover massive frauds inside their organizations that ultimately cost investors billions of dollars.

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