Leading in Context

AUGUST 25, 2021

By Linda Fisher Thornton After I published "Prevention or Cure: Your Choice" about reducing ethical risk and creating a positive culture a reader asked for more information about the business case for prevention.

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Leading in Context

JULY 21, 2021

Just knowing about ethics and leadership won't get us very far in an information-flooded, globally shifting, and unpredictable world where we are under time pressure and held accountable for making ethical choices under ever-more-extreme conditions including the current global pandemic.

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Leading in Context

APRIL 14, 2021

It's not easily visible to leaders, so today I'm digging into how these important variables intersect and how they should inform our approach to leadership development. By Linda Fisher Thornton There's a powerful connection between responsible leadership and human growth and development.

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Leading in Context

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

By Linda Fisher Thornton After I published “Prevention or Cure: Your Choice” about reducing ethical risk and creating a positive culture a reader asked for more information about the business case for prevention.

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Leading in Context

JANUARY 26, 2022

Or the platforms who intentionally or unintentionally share false information for profit? By Linda Fisher Thornton Global unrest is being fueled by widespread misinformation campaigns. Who's fueling these campaigns? The bad actors who are creating misinformation? Or the people who believe the disinformation they read and incite violence?

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Leading in Context

AUGUST 12, 2020

As we struggle with compounding challenges around the world, people are more and more frequently seeking information about human or humane leadership. Why is the topic so timely?

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Leading in Context

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Conversely, when ego is not driving the thinking process, leaders can adapt to changing information and circumstances and change their minds. Of course, it isn't fixed and they can't control it, but they may not want to be confused with the facts.

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Leading in Context

MARCH 4, 2020

This is Part 2 in a Leading in Context blog series sharing information on how to spot misinformation and false narratives. In case you missed it, Part 1 explored truth and narrative. In Part 2, I will explore how data relates to the truth.

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Leading in Context

JANUARY 15, 2020

The leader groups I work with find that clarity on these and other questions informs their leadership and their decision making. Why is ethics such a contentious topic, and defined in so many different ways by different people? Use this curated collection of posts to shore up your knowledge for the new year:

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Leading in Context

MARCH 11, 2020

By Linda Fisher Thornton This is Part 3 in a Leading in Context blog series sharing information on how to spot misinformation and false narratives. In case you missed them, Part 1 explored truth and narrative, and Part 2 examined how data and motives related to the truth. Part 3 will address the importance of media literacy.

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Leading in Context

JUNE 20, 2018

With all the information available in a socially connected world, it is easy to fall victim to the quick oversimplified understanding of issues. This "quick glance" way of gathering information doesn't reveal the breadth and depth of what's really going on.

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Leading in Context

JULY 17, 2019

Your best best is to choose your sources of information carefully so that you can reasonably be assured that what you are seeing and hearing is real. Healthy Skepticism You can't believe everything you see. Photographs and videos that appear to be "proof" of a story may have been altered.

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Leading in Context

JULY 30, 2014

Yes and No requesting more information about the organizational side-effects of toxic leadership. Withholding information to preserve power creates an environment of suspicion. By Linda Fisher Thornton A reader commented on the post Can A Toxic Leader Be Ethical?

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Leading in Context

AUGUST 22, 2018

We see plenty of information about lying, cheating, stealing and other obvious ethical violations. By Linda Fisher Thornton This post is an updated version of a reader favorite. There Will Always Be Grey Areas There will always be ethical grey areas.

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Leading in Context

JULY 19, 2017

Our information and commerce are globally connected. By Linda Fisher Thornton It has become clear that a global economy requires more than local or regional thinking. Our greatest human challenges are global and must be solved globally. Global changes tend […].

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Leading in Context

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

In the UNESCO report "The Media: Operation Decontamination," Aidan White notes that "Today, it’s not just journalists who need to watch their language and show respect for the facts; everyone with something to say in the public information sphere needs to show some ethical restraint." There are many variables complicating media ethics.

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Leading in Context

OCTOBER 19, 2011

Leaders and Information Overload In today's world of work, we have to keep up with an overwhelming amount of information scan trends and forecasts and incorporate the needs of multiple stakeholders into good solutions. Our job is to make sense out of all of it in order to make work life easier for those we lead.

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Leading in Context

MAY 14, 2014

Dumming down" an issue may make the decision easier to make, but it may also lead us to make choices without considering current information, trends or context. By Linda Fisher Thornton Sometimes in the rush to make a quick leadership decision, we end up "dumming down" an issue to speed up the process.

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Leading in Context

APRIL 30, 2013

As we teach knowledge and information, these areas need to be taught through an ethical frame of reference. Children Need to Learn Responsibility and Respect Two key principles (in addition to the 3 R''s) that children need to learn in order to to live a successful life are responsibility and respect.

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Leading in Context

APRIL 10, 2013

By Linda Fisher Thornton Using globally-informed thinking helps us succeed in a connected economy and a global society. This week, I decided to corral a collection of posts that help us understand ethical leadership in a global context.

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Leading in Context

OCTOBER 24, 2012

It keeps us current, connects us with a global network of information and provides real-time data. Twitter helps us learn to "think global" in a connected global society. It can transform us and the way we do business. I've sprinkled in some statistics along with my own observations about the learning benefits of Twitter.

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Leading in Context

AUGUST 24, 2011

Grey Areas in Leading Ethically We see plenty of information about lying, cheating, stealing and other obvious ethical violations. It is more difficult to know what to do when we encounter behaviors that fall into ethical grey areas, particularly in term of relationships with other people.

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Leading in Context

JUNE 3, 2015

We struggle to balance competing interests, high expectations, information overload and overbooked schedules. 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 be at our best in difficult circumstances.

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Leading in Context

AUGUST 12, 2015

Others believe that it includes paying attention to messages from all areas of our lives and using that information to achieve insight and understanding. Some people believe the definition is very narrow, and only if you "do it right" in the scientific sense does it meet the requirements of proper research.

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Leading in Context

JANUARY 4, 2012

How to Use The Leading in Context® Website Consider how you want to find information and then click on the link below: ? To understand the evolving definition of "leading ethically" in a global society (Review Selected Posts) ? To follow my curiosity (Scan the Blog Index for titles that interest you!).

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Leading in Context

MAY 13, 2015

By Linda Fisher Thornton In a recent post, I acknowledged that "leaders face information overload, globalization and increasing complexity. And they hold the key to your organization’s future. Make it a priority to help them be ready." How can we prepare leaders to succeed in a socially and globally connected world?

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Leading in Context

APRIL 1, 2015

Since we can''t use a scripted response for unexpected situations, we need to help people learn how to handle complexity and information overload and still make ethical choices. This graphic pulls together 12 important trends in learning that will be important to our success in the future.

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Leading in Context

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Or are they being given information that covers some area of perceived risk but has no value to them in their day-to-day worlds? I see so many tweets from people attending ethics classes about how bored they are and how they already know the material that's being reviewed. Are these participants learning?

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Leading in Context

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

this post features more sources and more recent sources of information about shared ethical values on a global scale. Shared Ethical Values Part 2 - A Reader Asked for More! At the request of a reader via a comment on Linked In (thanks for the suggestion Jan!)

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Leading in Context

MARCH 9, 2011

Sticking to yesterday's conventional wisdom can make us out-of-date, because it helps us ignore any information that contradicts our beliefs. It can lead us to make decisions based on out-of-date ways of thinking, and that may result in missed opportunities or even to bad decisions that can harm others.

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Leading in Context

JULY 27, 2011

Case Study: Is Withholding Information From Other Leaders Unethical? As of today, after over 100 posts, these are the Top 10 Most Popular Leading in Context® Blog Posts: Planned Obsolescence: Is it Ethical? Can We Still Have the Newest Gadgets? Ethical Interpersonal Behavior Graphic: Red, Yellow and Green Zones Ethical Leadership Resources.

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JULY 15, 2020

By Linda Fisher Thornton To wrap up a recent series of posts about truth, misinformation and how to spot false narratives, here is a summary of key points and questions for discussion.

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