Leading in Context

JANUARY 12, 2022

By Linda Fisher Thornton The Top Post Series for last year on the Leading in Context Blog reflected the ethical challenges of repairing damaged trust in organizations. It featured three areas of managing trust that are most often lacking in organizations.

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Leading in Context

MARCH 8, 2023

The tricky part about managing ethical culture is that every leader decision and action throughout the organization is changing the equation. Being diligent about ethics in every decision brings the culture ethics dividends. Being careless about ethics brings ethics penalties.

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Leading in Context

JUNE 9, 2021

As if that weren't already challenging enough, managing ethics well also requires systems thinking and a broad understanding of ethical responsibilities. Why is ethics such a challenge for organizations? By Linda Fisher Thornton Developing ethical leaders and building ethical cultures have become critical business priorities.

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Leading in Context

JANUARY 11, 2012

What is the Purpose of Management Education? The purpose of management education is obviously to develop capable and responsible managers. But what does that mean?

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Leading in Context

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

As you watch, think about the tradeoffs you and your organization have had to manage as you navigated the global pandemic.

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Leading in Context

JANUARY 10, 2024

It featured specific areas of focus and strategies for building an ethical culture in your organization. By Linda Fisher Thornton The Top Post Series for last year on the Leading in Context Blog reflected how to navigate the nuances of ethical culture building.

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Leading in Context

APRIL 24, 2024

By Linda Fisher Thornton Graduates, as you start to search for a job, I want to share some guidance about how to choose an organization that aligns with your values to enhance your work experience and likelihood of success.

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Leading in Context

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

It is no surprise that there is not just one list of thinkers in management, leadership and business. Here is a wonderful sampling of some of the top thinkers that impact business, management and responsible leadership: There are many, and they vary in scope and topic.

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Leading in Context

AUGUST 25, 2021

Here are some compelling reasons why the prevention approach is a better business decision than waiting for ethical problems and applying a "cure" after the organization is already in trouble.

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Leading in Context

JANUARY 11, 2023

By Linda Fisher Thornton The Top Post Series for last year on the Leading in Context Blog reflected the urgent need to move ethical thinking and decision making forward in organizations. It featured specific areas of focus and strategies for improving organizational ethics. Use these posts to identify areas you want to improve in 2023.

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Leading in Context

MAY 26, 2021

This week let's build on research previously shared in a popular post, and look at additional insights about the negative impact of fear-inducing leadership on individuals and organizations.

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Leading in Context

MAY 17, 2017

I realized later that these important ethical roles apply not just to CEOs, but also to all senior leaders in an organization. And if the leaders they manage don't carry these roles throughout the organization, there will be gaps in the culture.

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Leading in Context

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Senior leaders set the tone for the organization's ethics, but the senior leadership responsibility for values leadership includes much more than that. Today, I'll look at the senior leader responsibility for sharing clear expectations, and explore more important roles that go well beyond setting the bar for expected behavior.

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Leading in Context

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

By Linda Fisher Thornton How well is your organization navigating the ethical pitfalls of the working world? If you're finding it to be a major challenge right now, you're not alone. Why is it so hard to navigate ethical minefields now? There is currently a "toxic soup" of factors at play.

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Leading in Context

JUNE 21, 2023

Employees are having a hard time managing an overload of information and tasks, and the problem is not getting any better. By Linda Fisher Thornton "The issue of the overwhelmed employee looms large" according to Josh Bersin, Bersin by Deloitte. Are You an Overwhelmed Employee? New Research Says Yes, LinkedIn).

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Leading in Context

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Toxic behavior is a problem in organizations across industries and it's often ignored because leaders fear the consequences of having performance conversations. Organizations that delay dealing with toxic behavior find that it spreads and erodes the integrity of an ethical culture.

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Leading in Context

MARCH 29, 2023

It is the importance of simultaneously managing two things well in order to shore up both sides of the system. By Linda Fisher Thornton I have written a lot about ethical culture building, but there is one simple concept that is a game changer that many leaders overlook.

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Leading in Context

MARCH 24, 2021

Trust Repair Part 2 addresses another area that the Trust Across America Trust Alliance found to be lacking in many organizations - Transparency. In this series, Trust Repair Part 1 addressed the importance of Accountability and strategies for building a robust accountability system.

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Leading in Context

JUNE 8, 2022

By Linda Fisher Thornton Managing the ethics of artificial intelligence is only becoming more complex over time, and the stakes are high for finding a path forward. This week I am sharing a special report "AI: Where Are We Now?" published by EDUCAUSE.

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Leading in Context

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Here are some compelling reasons why the prevention approach is a better business decision than waiting for ethical problems and applying a “cure” after the organization is already in trouble.

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Leading in Context

MARCH 22, 2023

Here is a starting list of 5 actions leaders can take that move organizations toward an ethical culture, besides telling people how important ethics is and demonstrating it in everyday behavior and choices.

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Leading in Context

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

for organizations and leaders to become frozen by the magnitude of the changes under way" (McKinsey & Co., Management Intuition For the Next 50 Years). How should we stay grounded as we avoid crises and manage our way through a maze of increasing expectations? By Linda Fisher Thornton It would be "easy [.]

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Leading in Context

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

The tricky part about managing ethical culture is that every leader decision and action throughout the organization is changing the equation. Being diligent about ethics in every decision brings the culture ethics dividends. Being careless about ethics brings ethics penalties.

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Leading in Context

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

How do you build accountability into your organization's use of AI? This article includes an overview of those ethical implications and steps organizations can take to build ethics into current and future AI projects. By Linda Fisher Thornton Who is accountable for ethical artificial intelligence?

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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

JANUARY 1, 2014

These timely articles published in Fox Business, The CEO Magazine, the Management Excellence Blog and the LeadBig Blog, detail the mindset for ethical leadership success and the specific action steps that leaders can take to be intentional and proactive about ethical leadership.

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Leading in Context

AUGUST 26, 2020

By Linda Fisher Thornton This week I'm sharing an edited compilation of three previously published posts that are relevant for leaders and organizations wanting to honor human rights in chaotic times. The first addresses the risk of excluding any humans from our organizational statement of inclusion.

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Leading in Context

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

We need to have clear expectations for what ethical leadership looks like in our organization; we need a congruent system for managing ethics that sends a consistent message; and we need a clear message about what taking responsibility for ethics really means to us.

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Leading in Context

MAY 20, 2020

It includes 10 Things Ethical Leaders Believe that transform their leadership and their organizations. This Manifesto frames ethical leadership in clear language, and is shareable under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License.

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Leading in Context

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

In this kind of environment, people can best use their talents to forward the organization's mission. By Linda Fisher Thornton With responsible leadership, people experience feelings of self-worth from being treated well, and feelings of usefulness from being able to make a valuable contribution to the team.

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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 31, 2012

Managing diversity without inclusion as the ultimate goal can make a big difference in the way employees experience our organization. Diversity is about having different types of employees, right? And that's a good thing for productivity and innovation, isn't it? It is a good thing. But it's not enough.

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Leading in Context

MARCH 16, 2016

By Linda Fisher Thornton Sarah Hood included some of my advice to HR Managers about CSR in her feature article about Corporate Social Responsibility in the March/April 2016 Edition of HR Professional Magazine. In it she explores the role of the HR professional in supporting and advancing an organization's CSR efforts.

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Leading in Context

JANUARY 18, 2017

Part 3 (Manage the System) The focus of this week's post is on Ways to Inspire Leaders to Lead With Positive Ethical Values. Here are 3 ways to inspire leaders to reach for positive values - that also help you "do good" in your organization, community and world. Part 2 (Improve Leader Impact) Ready to Change the Ethics Quo (For Good)?

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Leading in Context

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Since ethical reputation is a defining element in individual and organizational success, it is time that we consider ethical awareness as a key element of experience when selecting leaders for our businesses, community organizations, governments, and nations.

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Leading in Context

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

We fill roles in many different settings including in our organizations, industries and communities. Complexity Context Ethical Leader leadership and management leadership competence leadership skills what is ethical leadership' We are dealing with catastrophic change and uncertainty.

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Leading in Context

MAY 30, 2018

Leaders have tried to control ethics by running a tight ship, closely managing workers, but that does not bring out the best in people and may lead to workers not caring about protecting the company's reputation. .

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