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Are Bosses With Integrity Less Innovative?

The Horizons Tracker

They only analyzed companies where the CEO was hired between 2011 and 2013, and who had also stayed in post until at least 2018. To measure a CEO’s level of integrity, researchers assigned higher scores to those who used fewer causation words in their letters.

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The Best Collection of Advice for New Leaders

Great Leadership By Dan

Welcome to the August 5 th , 2013 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! Mary Jo Asmus , from www.aspire-cs.com : “Letter to a young leader: [link] ”. If you seek to lead, invest at least 50% of your time in leading yourself - your own purpose, ethics, principles, motivation, and conduct. This list is a keeper!

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Santa Claus and Google. The same or just a coincidence?

Strategy Driven

And Google reads all your letters! You have to be ethical all the time. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Google knows if you’re bad. Google knows when your good. Google has lists, and she checks them twice. Google knows who’s naughty. Google knows who’s nice. How can this be?

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Reprise: Interview with Sir Marshall Goldsmith and Chip Bell on Effective Mentoring

QAspire

Bell in 2013 when they released their book Managers as Mentors. With a firm belief that great ideas need to be repeatedly shared, I am re-posting the 2013 interview along with a revised sketchnote summary. I had the wonderful privilege of interviewing Sir Marshall Goldsmith and Chip R. The preamble to risk is courage. How does it help?

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Three Ways to Say No to a Reference Request

Harvard Business Review

Christopher, a seasoned real estate executive, left his job in early 2013 to move to a competitor’s firm. Less than three months later, he received a call from his former boss Theo — in search of a reference letter himself. I’d encourage you to reach out to someone who knows your work style/product/ethic better.

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“A Friend of a Friend” Is No Longer the Best Way to Find a Job

Harvard Business Review

If you go to job-searching workshops — and I went to more than 50 in the course of studying the contemporary hiring landscape in 2013 and 2014 — you will be told weak ties are the key. What kinds of relationships should we try to use when we are looking for a job?

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Jamie Dimon’s Pay Raise Sends Mixed Signals on Culture and Accountability

Harvard Business Review

The JP Morgan Chase board of directors has vexed the world with its terse announcement in a recent 8-K filing that CEO Jamie Dimon would receive a big pay raise — $20 million in total pay for 2013, up from $11.5 A legitimate case can be made for Dimon’s 2013 raise. Boards Ethics Leadership'