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The May, 2012 Leadership Development Carnival

Great Leadership By Dan

How can we help leaders deal with complexity and respond to it with ethical behavior? Linda Fisher Thornton , from Leading in Context offers Leading Ethically Through Complexity. No matter the arena, business, political, religious or role models in general, the operative question these days is ‘What were he/she/they thinking’.

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Without Clear Values, You Are Probably Losing Business

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

They can at companies like Disney, Starbucks, Southwest, McDonalds and Google – all listed in the top 15 of the 2012 most admired companies. If your team operates a cruise ship, safety needs to be a core value. If integrity or ethics are important, it needs to be listed. Don’t wait for senior leadership.

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CEOs Are Getting Fired for Ethical Lapses More Than They Used To

Harvard Business Review

From 2007-2011, forced turnovers due to ethical lapses were 3.9% From 2012-2016, that figure rose to 5.3% — while that might sound small, it’s a 36% increase. On a regional basis, the share of all successions attributable to ethical lapses rose most sharply in the U.S. in 2012–16), in Western Europe (from 4.2%

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Building a Software Start-Up Inside GE

Harvard Business Review

GE started on one floor of a large office building in 2012 and has grown to take over all five floors. Melody Ivory , a User Experience Product Manager, told me, “I was about employee number 30 in February 2012. By June of 2012 we were close to 100. Operations Competitive strategy Technology'

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High Frequency Trading: Threat or Menace?

Harvard Business Review

But in the process the new rule also spawned a whole new industry of front-runners called high-frequency traders. 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.

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Who’s Responsible for the Walmart Mexico Scandal?

Harvard Business Review

It broke into the open in April, 2012, when the New York Times published a lengthy investigative piece alleging Walmart bribery in a Mexican subsidiary and a cover-up in its Bentonville, Arkansas, global headquarters. Also at issue are what and when management told the board and what processes the board had for oversight.

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Remembering Ronald Coase

Harvard Business Review

In articles, reviews, and speeches, he spent his entire career — all eighty years or so of it, up to and including one of his last publications, an essay in HBR in December 2012 — admonishing, extolling, and sometimes outright pleading with his colleagues to turn economics into a true social science, one driven by empirical research. (He

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