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The January 2013 Leadership Development Carnival: Best of 2012 Edition

Great Leadership By Dan

Welcome to The January 2013 Leadership Development Carnival: Best of 2012 Edition! favorite, most popular) post from 2012, along with why it was the best. I'd say that's pretty darn efficient leadership development. was the most popular post of 2012 on the Leading in Context Blog. What is Creativity?"

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When Good Employees Do Bad: Six Surprising Behaviors that May Precede a Scandal

Leading Blog

When we look at companies that have faced scandals such as recalls, ethical violations, or crimes, the problem often comes down to employees whose surprisingly positive behavior was distorted by a toxic culture and clueless leaders. In fact, it can lead to disaster. Boeing is known for its highly competitive employees and work culture.

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8 Things Collaborative Leaders Know

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

In their 2012 global workforce study, Towers Watson found 46% of workers are not engaged. It might once have been possible to get away with questionable ethics, but there’s nowhere to hide anymore. According to John Chambers , CEO of Cisco, “You cannot create collaboration is you think leadership is about control.”

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Know Your History, Purpose and Direction

CoachStation

Let me know how you go. Could you summarise what CoachStation offers and does in a few sentences? CoachStation helps people and businesses to become more effective and efficient in what they do. in 2010 and started full time work in the business in 2012. I believe that anyone who knows me understands this.

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Walmart's Shades of Gray

Harvard Business Review

In fact, the same week this story surfaced, the company released its 2012 Global Responsibility Report, an interesting juxtaposition to say the least. Just as it's not sustainable to over-consume natural resources, it's not sustainable to alienate key stakeholders through ethical lapses. On the one hand, nothing. Of course not.

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The Right and Wrong Ways to Regulate Self-Driving Cars

Harvard Business Review

Autonomous vehicles will profoundly affect insurance, road design and construction, traffic management, taxi and limousine services, the materials and safety equipment in vehicles, and asset ownership (who needs to own a car when one can simply be summoned from the most efficient location?).

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High Frequency Trading: Threat or Menace?

Harvard Business Review

I’ve been meaning for a while now to buy and read two critical books on HFT published in 2012, Scott Patterson’s Dark Pools and Sal Arnuk and Joseph Saluzzi’s Broken Markets — both of which Lewis gushingly endorses. Ethics Finance Technology' Especially an author like Lewis. But I haven’t.