Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 27, 2012

While there are many examples in today’s headlines of organizations which have drifted so far off-course that it’s hard to see a viable turnaround in their near future, few illustrate the risks and fallout from such situations as the ensuing drama around the capsizing of the Costa Concordia cruise ship off the coast of Italy.

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Chartered Management Institute

JANUARY 31, 2024

Any effort to build an ethical culture must focus on how organisational conditions impact employees. This means looking at power, resources, incentives and norms. Purpose cannot be imposed, however – good leadership creates the conditions for meaning to emerge. Our mission is to help unleash the potential of every team.”

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HR Digest

APRIL 27, 2024

This resource dives deep into employee appreciation messages, providing over 100 examples to show your staff how much you care. Employee Appreciation Messages for Leadership and Inspiration Being a leader is hard and it takes a lot of active work to be a good one. Thank you for your leadership.” Look no further!

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Skip Prichard

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Transformational leadership. One of the popular frameworks of leadership is that of transforming leadership. Initially coined by James Downton in 1973 following his research into charismatic leadership, it was influenced largely by Bernard Bass, and his instrumental book Leadership and Performance Beyond Expectations (1985).

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Chart Your Course

MARCH 18, 2013

They host job fairs, place advertisements or offer current employees incentives for bringing in new hires. Every person hired contributes to a company’s culture with their talents, ethics and enthusiasm, and a bad hire is a waste of time, energy and money. When jobs abound, employers of course are eager to fill the spots.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 5, 2010

I don’t know about you, but it’s almost as if we have raised a generation of leaders who feel they have a moral and ethical obligation to be politically correct – WRONG. In the end, leadership that adopts politically correct behavior and thinking places themselves and their organizations at great peril.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Let me be clear: leadership and diversity should have nothing to do with one another. This blog was recently nominated for Kevin Eikenberry’s Best Leadership Blogs of 2010 , and I noticed recently that Kevin was taking heat from the gender police for having only one woman on the list of nominees.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

There is a tremendous amount of conflicting data as to whether or not incentive compensation in any form is an effective motivation tool. As an example, the marketing assistant who receives a comparatively small bonus when contrasted to that of a sales person feels that his/her contribution is minimized and feels treated unfairly.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 15, 2019

To quote The Economist “consumer trust is the basis of all brand values, and therefore brands have an immense incentive to retain it”. This isn’t a marketing issue, this is a business-wide issue, involving every facet of the organisation, hence leadership being so important. Why is this so important?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

But as more organizations fall prey to complex intangible risks, from unwanted disclosure due to rampant cyber threats to breaches of conduct driven by skewed incentive systems, the aperture of risk management is expanding from protecting the balance sheet to promoting ethical leadership and values-based decision making.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

” That speaks to why they did this in the first place: To meet sales quotas and earn incentives. ” Politicians, predictably, have railed against the leadership at Wells Fargo and have called for Stumpf’s resignation. Large-scale unethical sales practices often begin with minor ethical compromises.

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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. Here are five questions to ask: Do your company’s incentives match its policies? Most companies talk a good ethics game and even make their goals public.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Most companies have ethics and compliance policies that get reviewed and signed annually by all employees. “Employees are charged with conducting their business affairs in accordance with the highest ethical standards,” reads one such example. Creating an Ethical Workplace. You and Your Team Series.

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Lead on Purpose

AUGUST 6, 2009

This is an awsome incentive that could motivate a lot of people! I haven’t seen anything like this anywhere.

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Coaching Tip

APRIL 1, 2013

Traditionally the thinking has been that employers should appeal to workers’ more obvious forms of self-interest: financial incentives, yes, but also work that is inherently interesting or offers the possibility for career advancement. Many of the examples — the selfless C.E.O.’s, John Agno: Can't Get Enough Leadership.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 23, 2010

Navy One example of a leader who intentionally developed a Connection Culture using all three bridges is Admiral Vern Clark, the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) from 2000 until his retirement in 2005. Following are a few of the ways Admiral Clark and his leadership team built bridges so that everyone felt connected and a part of the Navy.

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Curious Cat

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

Studies of medical studies are constantly finding misleading results being reported (this is even with many measures in place attempting to counter the dangerous of misleading results being reported by those with an incentive to do so). Standardized testing in education is one example. Getting real world data is critical.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2017

CEO incentives have traditionally been evaluated against objective data — also labelled “hard.” ” Take, as an example, the world’s largest mining company by market capitalization, BHP Billiton. Should soft measures be part of a CEO’s scorecard? It has no intention of doing so.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

As a recent example, a simple background check would have saved the Yahoo board the trouble of ousting Scott Thompson , the company's fourth CEO in five years, because he falsely claimed a computer science degree. Appropriate risk, compensation, and financial policies will set the incentives and boundaries for employee behavior.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Most, however, require some external motivation to go above and beyond their jobs, which often falls under the category of “soft coercion” — pressure that is conveyed in a manager’s tone with employees, and in the cultural influences and incentives that he or she uses to promote positive discretionary behaviors at work.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2016

Jill was one more victim of what I call the “Kumbaya” school of leadership, which says that being open, trusting, authentic, and positive — and working really hard — is the key to getting ahead. ” CEO biographies and leadership literature perpetuate this “just world” myth.

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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

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Berra was famous for his “Yogi-isms,” but this one contained an essential truth: inchoate strategies and ineffectual leadership generally go hand in hand. Boards Leadership Talent management' American baseball legend Yogi Berra warned, “If you don’t know where you’re going, you might not get there.”

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Looking at these examples, it would be easy to say that whistleblowers have little impact on how companies both conduct themselves and weather corporate storms. firms with governance protocols that limit shareholder power relative to firm leadership—are less likely to actively use their internal reporting systems.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

These and other changes are evidence of a steady and growing recognition that today’s gender imbalance are a business and leadership issue. Slowly but surely, the shift from the 20 th century view that “gender imbalance is a women’s problem” to the more 21 st century “gender imbalance is a leadership challenge” is beginning to take root.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2011

They go by names like corporate social responsibility, sustainability, shareholder advocacy, social assessment and auditing, consumer action, government regulation, leadership development, ethics, realignment of incentives , attracting long-term investors , creating shared value , and more. Educate and Motivate Others.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 4, 2014

Retaining good employees, involving training, motivation and incentives, is yet another matter. According to research conducted by the Ethics Resource Center: Employees of organizations steal 10 times more than do shoplifters. In 2009, for example, more than 550,000 businesses were opened, and more than 660,000 closed.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

This client was a prime example of a leading CEO who served his community, profession and firm well. Enron did not demand enough accountability, fairness, ethics and operational autonomy from its outside auditor. Incentive and ‘random acts of kindness’ programs were deleted. The Auditing Firm Employed by Enron.

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