Leading in Context

AUGUST 5, 2020

Leaders focus on the good of their teams, organizations and communities. They work to achieve challenging goals and outcomes and they handle day-to-day crises. HOW they do that is shaped by their mindsets.

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Leading in Context

OCTOBER 22, 2014

The team took a large number of Fortune 100 statements of company values and generated a word cloud from them to see which word would appear most often. Complexity Ethical Leader Ethical Thinking complexity context ethical leadership development ethics integrity leadership development leadership future' Which word was it?

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Leading in Context

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

In Part 6, I provide an overview of each post in the series and an opportunity for you to practice recognizing ethical issues with your teams. In Part 5, I shared some recent blog posts about how to recognize ethical issues in current events and make good decisions about them.

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Leading in Context

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

By Linda Fisher Thornton The purpose of leadership has been debated but most people would agree that it includes bringing out the best in people and organizations. Some of the ways we do this include trust building, supporting, guiding, coaching, team building and removing barriers to good work.

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Leading in Context

JANUARY 27, 2021

Educate yourself and your teams about these methods of trickery and how to spot them: And the list is growing. It will take a healthy dose of skepticism, critical observation and research skills to find out if what we see is as it appears.

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Leading in Context

MARCH 24, 2021

It was inspired by conversations with other members of the Trust Across America Trust Alliance and my work as part of the Trust Alliance TAP team as part of #tap2021. By Linda Fisher Thornton This is the second in a series on how to repair organizational trust.

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Leading in Context

MAY 19, 2021

By Linda Fisher Thornton Ethical leaders can't really "control" organizations, but there are specific things they can do to bring out the best in others and teams to move the organization forward. Here are five things ethical leaders can and should control to have a positive impact on the organizations they lead.

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Leading in Context

MARCH 17, 2021

It was inspired by conversations with other members of the Trust Across America Trust Alliance and my work as part of the Trust Alliance TAP team. By Linda Fisher Thornton This post is the first in a three-part series about how to repair organizational trust.

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Leading in Context

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Feel free to use these as conversation starters with your team, and let me know if they make your conversations more meaningful. Complexity Ethical Leader Ethical Organization 7 lenses of ethical leadership context ethical culture ethical leader ethical organization ethics leader'

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Leading in Context

MARCH 4, 2015

But when we ask the teams we lead to be respectful, I wonder if we''re aiming too low. Ethical Leader Ethical Organization Ethical Thinking ethical business leadership leadership development leadership skills Responsible Leadership' Shouldn''t we be asking for more?

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Leading in Context

MARCH 31, 2021

It was inspired by conversations with other members of the Trust Across America Trust Alliance and my work as part of the Trust Alliance TAP team. By Linda Fisher Thornton This series of posts shares strategies for repairing organizational trust. Trust Repair Part 2 addressed strategies for improving leader Transparency.

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Leading in Context

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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Leading in Context

MAY 16, 2018

A leader's failure to learn starts a chain reaction that harms individuals and teams. . Professionals who work with a leader who has "put the brakes on learning" are likely to experience conflict and dissatisfaction.

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Leading in Context

OCTOBER 12, 2016

They are supporters, developers, guides, team builders, and imaginers. By Linda Fisher Thornton There are many important roles leaders play. They are culture caretakers, roadblock removers and inspirers.

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