Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 29, 2018

Guest post from Andrew Leigh: First let’s get a little clearer about what being an ethical leader means. You may not be able to “see” someone is an ethical leader. The trouble is many organisations prove to be rather short of such people. So why should an organisation bother about having an ethical leader? Surprising eh?

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Ethics Organization Short-term Globalization 167

Michael Lee Stallard

JANUARY 10, 2022

Brooks differentiated the terms this way in an article in The Atlantic : “Optimism is the belief that things will turn out all right; hope makes no such assumption but is a conviction that one can act to make things better in some way.” In terms of the pandemic, there is a realistic basis to be optimistic.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

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. million for 2012, a 74 percent increase.

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Banking Fashion CEO Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

If round after round of profit warnings was not enough – group operating profits fell 20% between 2011 and 2013 and are likely to fall another 30% in 2014 — the company recently announced it had overstated its first-half profit by about $400 million. UK retail, like the rest of the developed world, is witnessing a few big long-term trends.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

What happened to being rewarded for consistent, quality work over the long-term? This hasn’t gone unnoticed by some leaders, and a new generation of CEOs taking a cue from this last bastion of the Protestant work ethic. His biceps were visible under his t-shirt and his short hair was still wet from exercise.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2016

We might look to Sir Richard Branson, who in 2013 co-launched the “B Team,” publicly decrying corporations’ sole focus on short-term profits and calling for a reprioritization of people- and planet-focused performance.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Unfortunately for the accused, they are students — not engineers or project managers — and the professor meant to ban such collaboration in his instructions to the test. Collaboration is not the only skill schools fall short on. I don't know what hard skills I may need in 2030, 2020, or even 2013.

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