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What Is a Robot, Anyway?

Harvard Business Review

By 2003, there were 800,000. It’s with good reason engineers, scientists, writers, ethicists, and philosophers are considering the ramifications of advanced robotics and artificial intelligence. Imagine: Future robots could be built to include a kind of ethical clause that limits what they are allowed to do. Technology'

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Leading in a World Without Secrets

Harvard Business Review

Successful computer hacks now more often than not involve “social engineering,” the modern equivalent of an old-fashioned con. It can’t just be left to the PR department — the necessary messaging is too likely to be entangled with technical, legal, and ethical issues to compartmentalize it to any one department.

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Followership : Blog | Executive Coaching | CO2 Partners

CO2

Moreover, ethical followers can help leaders avoid making questionable decisions and high performing followers often motivate leaders to raise their own levels of performance. Brown-Nosers are earnest, dutiful, conscientious, and loyal employees who will do whatever their leaders ask them to do.

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Definition of Leadership | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

In further pondering this dichotomy an interesting thought came to mind – If I could genetically engineer the perfect leadership gene what qualities and characteristics would constitute the architecture of leadership DNA? The Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount are all the ethical code anybody needs.&# - Harry S.