Leading in Context

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The way we develop leaders impacts their growth and readiness to make successful and ethical choices when faced with challenging situations. This is the human development that happens over time to bring leaders to the point of being able to handle what the world throws at them using ethical thinking and action.

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Leading in Context

MAY 31, 2023

In addition to caring about what happens in our own careers, we must CARE about people, about their success, and about creating a positive work environment. By Linda Fisher Thornton Demonstrating care is one of the hallmark requirements of good leadership.

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Leading in Context

JULY 14, 2021

By Linda Fisher Thornton of values as a critical element in enabling and focusing individual and collective success. Values shape your life, leadership, career and relationships.

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Leading in Context

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

As we try to find stable footing in unstable times, ethical agility will be a factor in our success. Each day brings new challenges that consume our time and require us to grow into higher levels of ethical awareness to avoid missteps and miscalculations.

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Leading in Context

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

By Linda Fisher Thornton Our successful shared future depends on how we raise children now, as they will become our future leaders. There is no way to know which children will be the ones to solve the problems our current leaders are unwilling and/or unable to solve in the future.

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Leading in Context

JULY 29, 2020

Both are critically important aspects of ethical leadership success. Ethical leaders are fixed and flexible at the same time. They stay anchored to ethical values AND adapt as the world changes.

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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

MARCH 10, 2021

Many global factors are driving changes in ethical leadership expectations, and in high-stakes times, how we handle ethical leadership development can make or break our success. By Linda Fisher Thornton We need to get leadership right because so much depends on it.

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Leading in Context

OCTOBER 14, 2020

The good things in life, including success and happiness are more likely to happen when we reach higher than the baseline that is expected of us. By Linda Fisher Thornton I tell my students that if you go through life just reaching for the minimum standard, you end up with a minimum standard life.

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Leading in Context

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

This week, I share a high level view of 5 key things brands should know to be successful in reaching responsible consumers. The bottom line is that consumers continue to expect much more from brands than an honest and perfectly executed transaction.

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Leading in Context

JULY 19, 2017

We are connected by a shared future, with one region’s success deeply connected to another’s success. Our information and commerce are globally connected. Our greatest human challenges are global and must be solved globally. Global changes tend […].

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Leading in Context

JULY 11, 2018

By Linda Fisher Thornton We are not preparing students for success in the world where they will have to live and work. Some of the ways we currently think about "teaching" need to be scrapped and replaced.

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Leading in Context

OCTOBER 31, 2018

One of the pieces that we can't be successful without is learning from the widely varying perspectives of others. By Linda Fisher Thornton Ethical leadership requires us to understand the context and embrace the natural complexity of issues.

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Leading in Context

AUGUST 1, 2018

In Part 3 we'll look at the role of powerful conversations and a focus on collective success. By Linda Fisher Thornton In Part 1 of this series we looked at how leaders generate meaningful environments where others can thrive. In Part 2 we explored a leader's own quest for authenticity.

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Leading in Context

AUGUST 8, 2018

In Part 3 we looked at the role of powerful conversations and a focus on collective success. Seeking the Truth & Excavating Grey Areas Using Ethical Values In Part 1 of this series we looked at how leaders generate meaningful environments where others can thrive. In Part 2 we explored a leader's own quest for authenticity.

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Leading in Context

MAY 23, 2018

When we are consistently trustworthy, people know they can count on us to support their success. Ethical Leaders Are Trustworthy and They Choose to Trust Others When we choose to trust, we access a higher level of capacity in ourselves and our organizations. How Does Trust Drive Results?

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Leading in Context

JANUARY 24, 2018

If we just teach people skills, without upgrading their thinking, we are not preparing them for success in the real world. I believe that leadership development efforts must address the values-based thinking behind good leadership, or it will not lead to good leadership.

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Leading in Context

JULY 17, 2013

It is a stake in the ground, a powerful statement of how we can build the kind of ethical leadership that builds successful companies, successful communities and a better world. By Linda Fisher Thornton This week I am featuring The Leading in Context® Manifesto - a clear statement of what I believe and the movement I lead.

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Leading in Context

JULY 23, 2014

By Linda Fisher Thornton Generating an intentional positive ethical impact is the successful ethical leadership of the future, and it''s already here. The Forum For the Future describes it as net positive leadership - making a positive contribution to society and leaving things better than we found them.

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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

JULY 30, 2014

When people are treated as "less than human," "less than capable" or as "pawns in a game" some extremely negative things happen in the organization that derail its success. If you have ever worked for a toxic leader (myself included) you have already experienced the powerful negative side effects first-hand.

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Leading in Context

MARCH 25, 2014

To survive in this new land where ethics is key to success, we must confront the situation with a clear realization that it is not all about us. Consumers are choosing companies that care about their well-being. Employees are choosing companies that do meaningful work and give back to the community.

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Leading in Context

APRIL 1, 2015

By Linda Fisher Thornton Much of our success in a rapidly changing world will come from our ability to learn our way through difficult situations that have no clear solutions. 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

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Success in future leadership requires being nimble and adaptive, flexing with constant change, and being ready for anything. By Linda Fisher Thornton It would be "easy [.] for organizations and leaders to become frozen by the magnitude of the changes under way" (McKinsey & Co., Management Intuition For the Next 50 Years).

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Leading in Context

AUGUST 13, 2014

I thought it would be helpful to describe some of the critical functions of the ethical CEO that enable organizational success. That''s a shame, because the ethical CEO is a positive powerhouse - devoted to serving employees, customers, and communities.

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Leading in Context

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Service in leadership involves dedicating ourselves to the success of others. By Linda Fisher Thornton Ethics is fundamentally about thinking beyond ourselves, and service is an extension of that thinking.

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Leading in Context

JUNE 1, 2016

By Linda Fisher Thornton In this series called "5 Insights Into the Future of Leadership Development" I will be sharing trends and learning resources that give us the broad picture of how to prepare leaders for success in a complex, connected global society.

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Leading in Context

APRIL 30, 2013

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. As we teach knowledge and information, these areas need to be taught through an ethical frame of reference.

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Leading in Context

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

It is being recognized as a pivot point in business and a powerful catalyst for financial success. By Linda Fisher Thornton Trust is powerful. This updated Harvard Business review article connects trust with ROI and risk management:

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Leading in Context

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Here are some success principles for developing "Ethical Leader Future:". by Linda Fisher Thornton On Thursday, I spoke about The Future of Ethics and Business Leadership at the Richmond SHRM Strategic Leadership Conference.

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Leading in Context

DECEMBER 7, 2016

To be ready, we need to set our leadership and learning on the path to success. By Linda Fisher Thornton In the New Year, we will deal with leadership challenges we cannot predict in advance. This series includes 20 quotes (linked to posts with leadership guidance) that will help you leverage your leadership planning.

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Leading in Context

JUNE 1, 2016

By Linda Fisher Thornton In this series called "5 Insights Into the Future of Leadership Development" I will be sharing trends and learning resources that give us the broad picture of how to prepare leaders for success in a complex, connected global society.

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Leading in Context

JULY 13, 2016

By Linda Fisher Thornton One of the hallmark requirements of ethical leadership is that we CARE about people, about their success, and about creating a positive work environment. If leaders fail to demonstrate that they care, that harms the culture.

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Leading in Context

OCTOBER 14, 2015

Here are five perspectives on the critical role trust building plays in the success of our organizations: By Linda Fisher Thornton Trust is a hot topic and a valuable business enabler. The organizations that will adapt and succeed in the future make it a business priority.

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Leading in Context

MARCH 2, 2016

It addresses issues that concern leaders including: qualities of ethical leaders the multidimensional nature of ethical leadership learning ethical thinking identifying ethical leaders measuring leadership success.

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Leading in Context

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

While their purpose should be to enable the success of those they lead, they stop their circle of purpose at themselves and don't let concern for anyone else's well-being slow them down. They just want to get wherever they're going as quickly as possible. Some (who aspire to be) leaders act this way, too.

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Leading in Context

MARCH 28, 2012

Our comfort with that path makes it harder for us to see that even though the 'way we have always done things' has led us to success in the past, it may not in the future. We know the rules, the processes, the tools, the pitfalls and all other aspects of that path.

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